Iraq chemical attacks against Iran

Iraq chemical attacks against Iran is referred to chemical attacks targeted by Iraqi army and Ba’ath party against Iranian combatants and non-combatants. According to the documents at the National Archives Archeological Site (College Park, Maryland), the West supported Saddam Hussein’s regime to using chemical weapons in Iran-Iraq war and Iraqi–Kurdish conflict. Iraqi army had employed chemical attacks against combatants and non-combatants in the border citiesand villages and more than 30 attacks against Iranian civilians was reported.There were chemical attacks against some medical centers and hospitals by Iraqi army According to a 2002 article in the Star-Ledger, 20,000 Iranian combatants and combat medics were killed on the spot by nerve gas. As of 2002, 5,000 of the 80,000 survivors continue to seek regular medical treatment, while 1,000 are hospital inpatients. According to the Geneva Protocol, chemical attacks was banned but in practice, to prevent an Iranian victory, the West supported Iraqi army for using chemical weapons.

After the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, Iraqis decided to improve all levels of the army. General Hamdani stated that in spite of accurate analysis of the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, there is no strong successful in Iraqi army by Ba’ath party. in comparison to their Israeli counterparts, the Iraqi army faced with a significant deficit in technological knowledge. Also he believed the Iraqi army had approaches such as British army. In 1979 due to the approaches of saddam and the party’s leaders and senior military, Iraqi army obtained to the politicization of the army. That was their saying, better a good Ba’athist than a good soldier. During the early months of Iran-Iraq war, Iraq got successes because of Ba’ath interference and its attempts to improve the Iraqis army but the essential problem was that the military leaders did not planned the evident strategic or operational aim for any war. According to the documents at the National Archives Archeological Site (College Park, Maryland), the US supported Saddam Hussein’s regime to using chemical weapons in Iran-Iraq war and Iraqi–Kurdish conflict. The reporter Michael Dobbs of Washington Post stated that Reagan’s administration was well aware that these toxics sells to Iraq would employed in the war against Iranian. He nominated that Iraq’s chemical weapons’ use was “hardly a secret, with the Iraqi military issuing this warning in February 1984: “The invaders should know that for every harmful insect, there is an insecticide capable of annihilating it . . . and Iraq possesses this annihilation insecticide.” In order to prevent a collapse of the Iraq, the US employed third party forces like Saudi Arabia. According to the foreign policy decisions of Reagan every attempts is necessary and legal to save Iraq.

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