West Asia and North Africa · War

Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War

1978-1988 CE · Iran and Iraq

Mass protests in 1978 brought down Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and in 1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led the founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iraq under Saddam Hussein invaded in 1980, starting an eight-year war of trenches, missile attacks and chemical weapons that ended in stalemate in 1988.

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How the setting appeared

Crowded streets and bazaars of Tehran during the revolution, then front lines of marshes, trenches and border cities such as Khorramshahr and Basra.

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How people lived

Revolution brought new laws on dress, media and public life; the war drew in a generation of young conscripts and volunteers, displaced border populations and struck cities with missiles.

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How people worked

Oil revenue financed both states; strikes in the oil sector helped topple the shah, and the war targeted refineries, ports and tanker traffic in the Gulf.

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Belief, ritual and worship

Shi'a religious leadership and mosque networks mobilized the revolution; the new state was organized around clerical guardianship, while religious minorities faced new constraints.

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World-atlas stage: Decolonization and globalization
Region: West Asia · Iran and Iraq
Languages and scripts: Persian; Arabic; Kurdish; Azerbaijani Turkish
Important people: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi; Ruhollah Khomeini; Saddam Hussein
Events and changes: Revolutionary protests, 1978; Founding of the Islamic Republic, 1979; US embassy hostage crisis, 1979-1981; Iraqi invasion, September 1980; Chemical attack on Halabja, 1988; Ceasefire, August 1988
Evidence confidence: High for the political sequence and dates; war casualty totals are estimates and vary widely.

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Historical geography

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CIT-WANA-BRITANNICA-IRANIAN-REVOLUTION

Iranian Revolution (1978-79)

https://www.britannica.com/event/Iranian-Revolution

Encyclopaedia Britannica

CIT-WANA-BRITANNICA-IRAN-IRAQ-WAR

Iran-Iraq War

https://www.britannica.com/event/Iran-Iraq-War