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Iraq invades Iran at eight points on, and bombs Iranian airfields, military installations and economic targets
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Iran retaliates with bombing of Iraq
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Iraq ready to cease fire if Iran accepts its rights over Shatt Al Arab. Tehran rejects.
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America sends Awac planes to Saudi Arabia
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President Bani-Sadr appointed as chairman of Iran’s Supreme Defence Council
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Iraq captures Khorramshahr
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Iraq fails to gain Susangard
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Tehran merges the Basij-e Mustazafin militia with Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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Iran Susangard area unsuccessful
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Israeli warplanes destroy a nuclear installation near Baghdad
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President President Bani-Sadr dismissed by Khoneini
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A series of small attacks by Iran in areas adjoining Abadan
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Iran regains Abadan
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Hojatalislam Ali Hussein Khamenei elected president of Iran
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Iran retakes territories around Abadan
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Iraqi Kurdish guerrillas damages oil pipeline to Turkey
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Iraqis expelled from the Dezful-Shush area
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Syria shuts off pipeline carrying Iraqi oil to the Mediterranean
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Iraq announces they will withdraw from Iran if ending the conflict is guaranteed
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Iran stages a major offensive codenamed Bait al Muqaddas
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The end of Iran’s Bait al Muqaddas offensive. Iraqis back to the international borders.
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Anti-government riot in Shia, major cities of Iraq
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RCC: Iraq is ready for a ceasefire, but Iran rejects the offer
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Hussein announces: Iraq’s voluntary withdrawal from Iran will be completed by 30 June
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Baghdad announces evacuation of Iran, but still holds some Iranian territory
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Failed attempt to assassinate Saddam
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Iranian offensive to capture Basra failed
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Iraq declares exclusion zone around Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal in the Gulf
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Iran’s attempt to capture Mandali was unsuccessful
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Iranian offensives in the Musian area
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The Supeme Assembly of Islamic Revolution in Iraq formed and aimed to overthrow the Baathist regime in Baghdad
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limited gains in the Iranian offensive in the Fakeh region of Khuzistan to capture the Basa-Baghdad road near Amara
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Iraq strikes Iran’s Nowruz oilfield in the Gulf
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Iran’s failed offensive in the Ein Khosh area to reach the Basra-Badhdad highway
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Iraq fires missiles at Dezful
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Iranian government dissolves the pro Moscow Tudeh Party
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Iran’s offensive in Kurdistan
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Tehran stages offensive in west of Mehran
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Iran mounts offensive in Kurdistan
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Iraq missiles fired at Dezful-and the Iranian shelling of Basra, Khanaqin and Mandali-start a round of attacks on civilian targets. These end with a UN-mediated agreement not to attack population centres
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Iran failed attempt to march from Dehloran into Iraq
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The Tehran Khaibar offensive
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Iran retained control of Iraq’s oil-rich Majnoon Islands
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Elections to the second Islamic Majlis are held in Iran
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A ceasefire in the war of the cities
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Iraq escalates the Tanker war
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Iran retaliates by hitting ships serving Saudi and Kuwait
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UN security council condemns attacks on ships trading with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
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Hans Dietrich Genscher visits the Islamic Republic of Iran
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Tehran set up a tanker shuttle between Kharg and the Sirri Island oil terminal in the Lower Gulf
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Iran retakes part of disputed border territory lost to Iraq before the war
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53 Iraqi attacks on shipping in the Gulf to Iran’s 18
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Iraq’s bombing of Ahvaz and Bushahr starts another War of the Cities, with Iran firing missiles at Baghdad and shelling Iraqi border towns
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Iran mounts offensive in the Haur al Hawizeh marshes to seize the Basra-Baghdad road.
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Saudi foreign minister visits Tehran
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Failed attempt to assassinate ruler of Kuwait
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Intense the effective Iraqi air strikes against Kharg
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Khamanei re-elected as the president or Iran
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Iranian attack in the Rawandoz area in Kurdistan
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Iran receives 508 US made Tow missiles
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Iraq hit 33 ships in the Gulf and Iran hit 14 in the year
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3 offensives by Iran. The Fao peninsula offensive was proved successful
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Iran’s offensive in the Suleimaniya region of Kurdistan ended in early March. Area near the Darbandi Khan Lake is under its control
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UN security council combines its condemnation of Iraq for deploying chemical weapons with its disapproval of the prolongation of the conflict
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Oil price falls to below $10 a barrel from $27 a barrel in December
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Iraq's failed attempt to retake Fao.
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US law enforcement officers arrest 10 of the 18 Americans, Israelis and West Europeans
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Iran starts importing refined oil products
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Iraq captures Mehran, Tehran rejects the exchange offer of Mehran for Fao
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Iraq intensifies its air strikes against Iran’s economic and infrastructural targets
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Iran retakes Mehran
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US made arms and spares delivered to Iran via Spain and Yugoslavia
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Agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia within OPEC lifts oil prices to the $14-16 a barrel range
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Iraq’s successful long rang air raid on Sirri Island oil terminal
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Iraq has mounted a total of 120 air sorties against Kharg over the preceding twelve months
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Iran’s successful limited offensive in Hajj Umran of Kurdistan
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Iran build another pontoon bridge across the Shatt al Arab. Offensive in Fao
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Baghdad stages successful air raid on Lavan oil terminal south of Kharg
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Iran carries a commando raid on an oil pipeline near Kirkuk
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Iraq stages its furthest air raid yet and strikes Iran’s Larak Island oil facilities
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Iran launches major offensive against the Iraqi forces near Basra
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During 1986 Iraq strikes 66 ships in the Gulf; Iran strikes 41
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Iran launches major offensive to capture Basra
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Iran offensive in the central sector near Qasr-e Shirin
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Iraq attacks Tehran and other Iranian cities with bombs and long-range missiles. Iran retaliates with artillery and missiles
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Iran mounts two more offensives in the south
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Rafsanjani calls on them to withdraw support from Iraq
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Declares the end of Karbala Five offensive
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Saddam Hussein warns against a slow defeat through attrition
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To prevent the transfer of Iraqi troops from the south to the north the Iranians start draining water barriers protecting Basra and mount an offensive
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Failed attempt to assassinate Saddam Hussein
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Iranians and Kurdish allies capture strategic heights near Suleimaniya
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Iran gains ground near the Iraqi Kurdish towns of Mawet and Qala Diza
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Soviet Union agrees to lease three of its oil tankers to Kuwait
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Iran scores limited gains in an offensive of Kurdistan
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Iranians turn Farsi Island into a naval base. Soviet freighter is hit by a mine in the Gulf
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Two Iraqi Exocet missiles hit an American frigate in the Gulf and kill 37 crewmen
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Iran gains more territory in Kurdistan and the hydro-electric dam on Darbandi Khan Lake
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Islamic Republican Party dissolved
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Iraqi Kurdish guerrillas mount a series of minor offensives in Suleimaniya province
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Iraq accepts the 598 resolution on the condition that Iran does the same
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Tehran fails to provide an unequivocal reply to Resolution 598.
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US naval helicopters destroy Iran Air, allegedly caught in the act of laying mines
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Iran and Iraq close down their diplomatic missions
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USA destroys three Iranian patrol boats near Farsi Island after claims that the Iranian fired on a US patrol helicopter
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Iranian Silkworm missile hits an American-flagged supertanker in Kuwait
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Iran hits Kuwait’s Sea Island oil terminal
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Iran stages probing attacks in the Fakeh area north of Basra
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During 1987, Iraq strikes 76 ships in the Gulf; Iran 87
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Minor offensive by Iran near Mawet in Kurdistan
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Iraq renews the War of the Cities. Iran responds with missiles attacks on Baghdad, Iraq hits Tehran with missiles
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Iran launches offensives in two areas in Kurdistan
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Iran captures Halabja in Kurdistan
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The Iraqi air force drops chemical bombs on Halajba, killing at least 4000 people
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First round of parliamentary elections held in Iran
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Iran launches an offensive in the Panjwin area of Kurdistan
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Iraqis recapture the Fao peninsula with the use of chemical weapons
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US warships blow up two Iranian oil rigs, destroy an Ianian frigate and immobilize another and sink an Iranian missile boat
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War of cities ended by Iraq
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second round of parliamentary elections in Iran
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Iraq mounts offensives in the northern and central sectors. It retakes Shalamche using chemical weapons
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The Iranians penetrate the Shalamche area then withdraw
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Iraq captures Mehran. NLA is expelled by the Iranians
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Iraqis recapture the Majnoon Islands
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Baghdad retakes Mawet in Kurdistan
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Iraqis regain territory in the Panjwin district
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Baghdad retakes the Iraqi territory in the Musian border region
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Iran accepts UN security council resolution 598
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Iraqis mount offensives in the northern, central and southern sectors. Iranians soon retake the territory lost near Ahvaz
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Iraq withdraws its demand for direct talks with Iran
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A ceasefire comes into effect