TIMLINE OF THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR

TIMELINE OF THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR

1987

1983

1985

1981

1975

Treaty of Iran-Iraq was signed

• March : Iran started new offensive against Basra and crosses the Tigris River, but is driven back.
• Iran fires missiles at Baghdad in retaliation for Iraqi air raids on Iranian civilian targets.
• September: Iran seized more territory around Majnoon.

• May: Iran began a counteroffensive, forcing Iraqi forces back on the central and northern fronts.
• October: Iran started drive on the Iraqi-held port of Khorramshahr.

• Jan. 6: President Hussein(Iraq) called for peace.
• Iran mounts drive against Basra, reaching outskirts.
• April : Iran increased attacks on neutral shipping. Kuwait appealed to big powers to protect free navigation in the gulf.
• May : Iraqi missile attack on the Navy frigate Stark killed 37 Americans.
• July : U.N. Security Council adopted resolution calling for end to war.
• Mine damages supertanker Bridgeton in first U.S. Navy convoy for Kuwaiti ships.
• Oct.: Iranian missile hits the Kuwaiti tanker Sea Isle City.
• U.S. forced attack on two Iranian oil platforms.

• Iran launched three unsuccessful offensives, with huge losses.
• February - Tehranattacked along a 40-kilometer stretch near Al Amarah, about 200 kilometers southeast of Baghdad.
• IBaghdad used massive air attacks, with more than 200 sorties, many flown by attack helicopters. More than 6,000 Iranians were killed that day, while achieving only minute gains.
• April - repeated Iranian attacks were stopped by Iraqi mechanized and infantry divisions.

• settled Iran-Iraq territorial disputes
• Baghdad in 13 March 1975
• end the disputes between Iraq and Iran on their borders in Shatt al-Arab and Khuzestan
• the main reason for Iraq was to end the Kurdish rebellion.

1982

1984

1988

1980

1986

1981

1975

1983

1987

1985

1984

1980

1982

1988-1989

1986

• March : President Hussein proposed an Iraqi withdrawal to international borders
• May: Iranians take Khorramshahr.

• Febuaruy- Iran mounts an offensive, entering Iraq by the end of the month and taking part of the Majnoon oilfields, north of Basra.
• An attempted advance on Basra is stopped by Iraq.
• March : Iraq began air attacks on oil tankers serving Iran. May: Iran retaliated by attacking Kuwaiti and Saudi tankers.

• Febuaruy: Iranian forced cross the Shatt al Arab south of Basra.
• they occupy 300 square miles of the Fao peninsula.
• December: Iran mounted attack in southern Iraq.

• Sept. 7: President Saddam Hussein of Iraq cancels 1975 treaty with Iran and claims sovereignty over the Shatt al Arab
• the waterway that forms part of the southern border between the countries. Iran rejects the claim. Minor border clashes follow.
• Sept. 22: Iraqi forces invade Iran.
• end of October the Iraqis occupy a strip of Iranian territory 6-25 miles wide.

• Iran accepted United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution 598, leading to a 20 August 1988 cease-fire ending the war
• none of the issues that are blamed for war had been resolved
• the conditons that existed at the beginning of the war remained virtually unchanged.
• Iraq won the war militarily, and possessed a significant military advantage over Iran in 1989

By Lexi Shandor

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