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Iran-Iraq War
Iraqi President Barham Salih, right, walks with visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, after inspecting an honor guard at Salam Palace, Baghdad, March 11, 2019. (AP/Khalid Mohammed)
March 11, 2019, 7:19 pm
Iran president on first Iraq visit seeks to deepen alliance, evade US sanctions
Underlining how ties have changed since Saddam invaded Iran in 1980, Rouhani meets counterpart Barham Salih, touts ‘unity and cooperation’ between Shiite neighbors
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra
Hezbollah supporters hold images of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L) and Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenai, during celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the Iranian revolution in Beirut on February 6, 2019. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
February 10, 2019, 8:26 pm
Iran’s revolution: Political quake still shaking Middle East
Ousting the shah in 1979 upended regional order, and continues to shape events today in Yemen, Syria and Lebanon
By Kay Armin Serjoie and Marc Jourdier
Illustrative image: Iranian mourners carry flag-draped coffins of soldiers killed during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, in Tehran, Iran, June 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
September 13, 2018, 12:48 pm
Thousands of Iranians attend funeral for soldiers killed in 1980s war
135 bodies were buried in Tehran 30 years after end of Iran-Iraq war but only 17 of them have been identified
By AP
In this Sept. 23, 2015 file photo, Iranian soldiers take a picture with a Winnie the Pooh character next to a F-14 fighter jet in an exhibition of achievements and equipment of Iran's air force in Tehran, Iran. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)
August 20, 2018, 1:29 am
Former F-14 pilot named new Iran air force chief
Gen. Aziz Nasirzadeh, veteran of Iran-Iraq war, has been acting head of air force since 2017
By AP
Destroyed houses in Khorramshahr, Iran during the Iran-Iraq War (YouTube screenshot)
August 18, 2018, 9:26 pm
Tehran museum lionizes 1980s war in which Iran took on ‘whole world’
State-of-the-art facility glorifies nation’s steadfastness in face of adversity during Iran-Iraq War, makes no mention of Israel’s military support against Saddam
By Marc Jourdier
The Wadi al-Salam, or "Valley of Peace" cemetery which contains the graves of victims of violence of Iraq’s contemporary history, from the ruinous 1980-88 war with Iran to the costly 1990-91 conflict over Kuwait and 13 years of uninterrupted bloodshed starting with the U.S. led invasion in 2003. (AP Photo)
April 30, 2018, 6:08 am
Iran said to destroy mass graves of those executed in 1988
Authorities said to be targeting burial sites of up to 5,000 people killed in purge at end of bloody war with Iraq
By Jon Gambrell
People walk past a display of Cold War-era tanks at the Royal Tank Museum in Amman, Jordan, February 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil)
February 6, 2018, 5:15 pm
A century of Middle East wars on display at new Jordanian tank museum
Collection of 110 tanks that saw battle includes armored vehicles from conflicts between Israel and its Arab neighbors in the Golan Heights, Jerusalem
By Sam McNeil
In this Wednesday, January 10, 2018 photo, a man cleans a 1952 Chrysler parked in front of owner Saad al-Nuaimi's coffee shop in the northern Azamiyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
January 17, 2018, 12:05 pm
Optimism in Iraq fuels revived interest in vintage cars
‘When you feel secure, you have the guts to get money out of your pocket to enjoy such beauties,’ says one Baghdad collector
By Sinan Salaheddin
A man reading Al-Hayat newspaper at a cafe in the Saudi capital Riyadh, November 5, 2017. (AFP / FAYEZ NURELDINE)
November 12, 2017, 8:58 pm
Old rivalries give way to new threats, as Iran-Saudi ‘Cold War’ heats up
The Sunni kingdom and Shiite Islamic Republic have long sparred over religion and regional control
By Marc Jourdier and Anuj Chopra
Iranian army cadets perform their Friday prayer at the Tehran university campus, Friday, Sept. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
November 20, 2016, 7:03 pm
Iran appoints new chief for army’s ground forces
Khamenei names Iran-Iraq War veteran Gen. Kiumars Heidari to top post
By AP
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei poses for a portrait prior to delivering his message for the Iranian New Year, Sunday, March 20, 2016. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/AP)
June 28, 2016, 9:43 pm
Iran taps Revolutionary Guard general to head army
Khamenei names Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, a 55-year-old veteran of the 1980-1988 war with Iraq, as the new chief of staff
By AP
Iranian MPs attend a parliament session in Tehran, March 1, 2016. (AFP/Atta Kenare)
May 17, 2016, 3:48 pm
Iran MPs want US to pay damages for ‘hostile action’
New law obliges government to demand compensation for 1953 coup against leader, Iran-Iraq War and destruction of Gulf oil platforms
By AFP
Iranian MPs attend a parliament session in Tehran, March 1, 2016. (AFP/Atta Kenare)
May 2, 2016, 3:52 pm
Iran to grant citizenship to families of foreign ‘martyrs’
New law applies to non-citizens killed in Iran-Iraq war, ‘volunteers’ from Afghanistan and Pakistan fighting in Syria and Iraq
By AFP
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, center, arrives for a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry April 19, 2016, at the United Nations in New York. (AFP / DON EMMERT)
April 20, 2016, 5:38 pm
Defending military program, Zarif likens Iran-Iraq war to Holocaust
‘Never again’ resonates with Iranians too, foreign minister writes in Washington Post op-ed; says Tehran hasn’t started a war in ‘more than two centuries’
By TOI staff
Ashton Carter, left, and Moshe Ya'alon, right, at the National Defense University in Washington, DC on October 27, 2015. ( Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)
October 29, 2015, 1:46 am
Ya’alon: US-Israeli dispute over Iran deal is over
Defense minister says with accord finalized, allies must put differences behind them and ‘look to the future’
By JTA
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