1980 – 1988
Eight years of industrial-scale slaughter — Saddam Hussein's invasion of revolutionary Iran becomes a grinding war of attrition that kills a million people and ends exactly where it began.
Chapter-by-chapter narrative with maps, primary sources, and key events.
Explore battles on a live map with a timeline slider and territory overlays.
Deep-dive into every major engagement — commanders, casualties, significance.
Biographical flip cards with real portraits, facts, and full biography pages.
Trace each figure's full life journey — birth, education, battles, and death — on a live map.
Scroll-driven visualization of casualties — each dot a thousand lives.
Weapons, war machines, and the military innovations that defined how this conflict was fought.
Cause-and-effect chains tracing the war's long shadow on history.
War crimes, massacres, and the darkest chapters of this conflict — documented for history.
Eight years of industrial-scale slaughter — Saddam Hussein's invasion of revolutionary Iran becomes a grinding war of attrition that kills a million people and ends exactly where it began.
Iran-Iraq War was fought from 1980 to 1988.
Iran-Iraq War was fought between Iraq and Iran.
An estimated 600,000 people died in Iran-Iraq War, including roughly 500,000 military and 100,000 civilian deaths. Figures are scholarly estimates and vary by source.
Major engagements included Operation Ramadan, Operation Kheibar, Operation Tawakalna ala Allah, and Battle of Faw Peninsula.