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30 Facts About the Rise and Fall of Saddam Hussein, the Butcher of Baghdad

Trista December 25, 2018 13 min
Saddam Hussein - Invasion of Kuwait

Kurdish peshmerga (opposition forces) in northern Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War. Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain.

18. He Went to War With Iran

In September 1980, Saddam invaded Iran, presumably to quell the Shi’a uprising there and prevent it from spreading to Iraq, in what Iran came to see as an act of war. The Iran-Iraq War would last for nearly a decade and claim over a million lives on each side.

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