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Iran, 1979-1997: Islamic Republic, War, and Thermidor

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Iran Iraq War - Is the US Bankrolling Saddam Hussein?

The US is backing Saddam Hussein at this point when really not that long before that the US had been supporting the Shah against Iraq. The legacy of the Iran Iraq war then spills over and then continues both internally within Iran so I mean there's so many fightingFighting is so much internal fighting about who gets who gets a defined the Iraq war who are the martyrs I mean who did the martyrs belong to?

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