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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
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to appreciate the importance of this relationship we need to go back to the iran iraq war. in september one thousand eight hundred satam hussein decided to invade iran just months after the revolution the fledgling islamic republic was threatened with destruction. and that. in the iranian collective memory syria was the only country to supporters during the war against iraq. and we ve never forgotten that that hard to the war which was. that sense of strategic solitude that the romulans experienced during the iran iraq war had deep impact on your thinking and or threat assessment and it still to this day influences how they see the world.