Summary of the war
The Iran-Iraq war or the eight-year war in the literature of the Islamic Republic: imposed war and holy defense; In Arabic sources, the First Persian Gulf War and in Western sources, the Iran-Iraq War, which was called Saddam's Qadisiyah War in Iraq, was the longest conventional war of the 20th century and the second longest war of this century after the Vietnam War, which lasted nearly eight years. It lasted a year.
On September 22, 1980, the war turned into a full-scale war with the Iraqi air attack on ten airports and the attack of the Iraqi ground forces on all borders. According to the Iraqi authorities, the war started on 13 Shahrivar 1359 (September 4, 1980) and the heavy Iranian artillery attacks on the cities of Khanaqin and Mandali. In a year and a half, not only was no solution thought of to resolve the dispute, but provocative words gradually widened the scope of the disputes.
The reaction of Iranian officials on the day of Iraq's attack was normal as if they expected it or saw Iraq as very inferior and themselves very strong. They immediately turned the war into a dual war between right and wrong, and like the Safavids, by adding Shia rituals to this war, they gave the properties of a religious war and promised that they would continue the war.