The Iran-Iraq War: Impact and Implications by Efraim Karsh

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By Efraim Karsh

Bringing jointly Israeli, American and eu experts from the fields of heart East heritage, diplomacy, technique and economics, this e-book bargains a complete "post bellum" research of the effect and implications of the Iran-Iraq battle. The ebook starts off with an exam of the war's effect at the household and international affairs of the 2 belligerents, keeps with a dialogue of the political ramifications of the struggle in either the neighborhood and the worldwide spheres, and concludes through studying the commercial, army and strategic implications.

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And yet for all this polarization, the two regimes share a striking similarity in their perception of Iran's regional role: both have been hegemonic powers motivated by the unyielding determination to assert Iran's supremacy throughout the Gulf. Moreover, the means employed in the pursuit oflran's ambitious desire under the two rules have not differed drastically, ranging from political pressures to subversion to resort to armed force. The two major differences between monarchic and revolutionary Iran, though, revolve around both the nature of the aspired hegemony and the success to attain this goal.

Notes l. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. For a more detailed discussion see Chubin and Tripp, Iran and Iraq at War (London: Tauris, 1988). Martin Wight in Power Politics, Hedley Bull and Carsten Holbraad (eds) (Harmondsworth: Penguin, for RIIA, 1979) pp. 89--90, 91-2. See my longer discussion of this problem in 'Les Conduites des Operations Militaires', Politique Etrangere 2, 1987 (Special issue on Iran-Irak: La Diplomatie du Conftit) pp. 303-17. Jeffrey Record, 'The Rapid Deployment Force', Strategic Review, Spring 1986, p.

By mid-1984, however, the voice of the moderates appeared to have carried far greater weight within Iran's decision-making elite, as could be inferred from the decision to end the first 'war of the cities' (February 1984) despite the position of the hard-liners, and all the more so by the reversal of the costly Iranian war strategy of human wave attacks in favour of a more conventional and orderly fighting. The deepening rift inside the Iranian leadership continued apace after 1984, making its way to the public at large, IS and culminating in the summer of 1988 in reported armed clashes between the rival factions within Iran's 150,000-strong mullah community and an open defiance of Khomeini's position on the war issue by leading clergymen.

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