iraq war. in september one thousand eighty satam hussein decided to invade iran just months after the revolution the fledgling islamic republic was threatened with destruction. and that whatever you thought if you are in the iranian collective memory syria was the only country to support us during the war against iraq. and we've never forgotten that that hard to the more which was. that sense of strategic solitude that they wrong is experience during the iran iraq war had deep impact on your thinking and or threat assessment and it still to this day influence how they see the world. the fact that saddam used chemical weapons against iran where. the entire