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Economic relations. Trade between Iran and the United States reached $623 million in 2008. According to the United States Census Bureau, American exports to Iran reached $93 million in 2007 and $537 million in 2008. American imports from Iran decreased from $148 million in 2007 to $86 million in 2008. [435]
The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, [f] was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. Active hostilities began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran and lasted for eight years, until the acceptance of United Nations Security Council Resolution 598 by both sides.
CrisisWatch – Monthly bulletin, interactive map and database on ongoing conflicts by the International Crisis Group. Map of the world's conflicts Archived 21 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine, by IRIN. History Guy's coverage of 21st century wars; Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK)
Starting on 17 October 2023, and in response to United States support for Israel in the Israel–Hamas war, Iran -backed militias initiated a coordinated series of more than 170 attacks on U.S. military bases and assets in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan. [33] [34] [35] These attacks resulted in injuries to dozens of U.S. service members.
The Iraqi invasion of Iran began on 22 September 1980, sparking the Iran–Iraq War, and lasted until 5 December 1980. Iraq attacked under the impression that Iran would not be able to respond effectively due to internal socio-political turmoil caused by the country's Islamic Revolution one year earlier.
Ottoman–Persian Wars. Military of Afsharid Iran. Mughal–Persian Wars. Russo-Persian Wars. Persian Corridor (a.k.a. Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran) Consolidation of the Iranian Revolution (1979–1982/83) The policy of exporting the Islamic Revolution. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Kurdish separatism in Iran.
The 2003 invasion of Iraq [b] was the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion began on 20 March 2003 and lasted just over one month, [23] including 26 days of major combat operations, in which a United States-led combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded the Republic of Iraq.
International aid to combatants in the Iran–Iraq War; Iran Air Flight 655; Iran–Contra affair; Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict; Operation Staunch was created in spring 1983 by the United States State Department to stop the illicit flow of U.S. arms to Iran. Soviet support for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq war; Italian support for Iraq ...