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This video was made in remembrance of all the brave Iranian soldiers who put their lives on the line and fought for 8 years to defend Iran in a war that was imposed on us by the aggressor Saddam Hussein.

Video made by: The Evil Persian

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Background history:

The Iraqi Imposed war began when Iraq invaded Iran on 22 September 1980. Although the Iraqis attacked without formal warning, they failed to make progress and were soon repelled by the Iranians. Despite several calls for a ceasefire by the United Nations Security Council, hostilities continued until 20 August 1988; the last prisoners of war were exchanged in 2003.

Iraq's army was primarily equipped with weaponry it had purchased from the Soviet Union and its satellites in the preceding decade. During the war, it purchased billions of dollars worth of advanced equipment from the Soviet Union, France,[31] as well as from the People's Republic of China, Brazil, Egypt, Germany, and other sources (including Europe and facilities for making and/or enhancing chemical weapons). Germany[32] along with other Western countries (among them United Kingdom, France, Spain (Explosivos Alaveses), Canada, Italy and the United States) provided Iraq with biological and chemical weapons technology and the precursors to nuclear capabilities

The U.S. sold Iraq $200 million in helicopters, which were used by the Iraqi military in the war. These were the only direct U.S.-Iraqi military sales and were valued to be about 0.6% of Iraq's conventional weapons imports during the war.
With more than 100,000 Iranian victims[56] of Iraq's chemical weapons during the eight-year war, Iran is one the countries most severely afflicted by weapons of mass destruction.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust, released a list of U.S. companies and their exports to Iraq.

The official estimate does not include the civilian population contaminated in bordering towns or the children and relatives of veterans, many of whom have developed blood, lung and skin complications, according to the Organization for Veterans of Iran. According to a 2002 article in the Star-Ledger: "Nerve gas agents killed about 20,000 Iranian soldiers immediately, according to official reports. Of the 90,000 survivors, some 5,000 seek medical treatment regularly and about 1,000 are still hospitalized with severe, chronic conditions. Many others were hit by mustard gas..."[57]

Iraq also used chemical weapons on Iranian civilians, killing many in villages and hospitals. Many civilians suffered severe burns and health problems, and still suffer from them. Furthermore, 308 Iraqi missiles were launched at population centers inside Iranian cities between 1980 and 1988 resulting in 12,931 casualties.[56]

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  • Do the thousands of kids that died because they were sent into mine fields so the real soldiers wouldn't have to also count as "brave Iranian soldiers"?

  • Long live Iran <3

  • komigennufan and hesam0000 READ THIS : today I saw a comment by a Canadian, I can't believe it A CANADIAN and he says we are BARBARIANS who fight each other because they make it so! Can you believe that? he declares it in the cold light of day! Now keep fighting each other assholes. I am sorry for myself I was born in your region, the region of stupids.

  • @Hesam0000 lol first of all the bones might have came from afric OR the real owners of the land wich is indians

    second.lol now i know that yr the jelous pissed of one here.. eating lizzard? lol the arabs have fucked ur asses many hunderd of years, u write arabic ur names is arab ur religioun is arabic and u immigrate to arab countries.

    belive me i would allso be mad if i were u, iraq have older history.. arabs took ur land, and ur aryans from india.

    but thats the facts. now go and do ur nose job

  • @Hesam0000 lol what an idiot..siberia didnt exzist wen it was aryans... it was too cold to live in russia

    aryans r from india, because as archeological evidences this word "Aryan" comes from RigVeda & Aryavarta was ancient India civilization the lands from Afghan to eastern Himalayas..its those people were worshipers of all forces of nature as gods(later named Hindu gods) swastika was symbol and spoken Sanskrit language

    only dark Caucasians R1A1gene group of people r aryan not light eyed, whites

  • @Hesam0000 there IS no persia wen u dont talk about race there is iran and iranic people wich is many races. it WAS persia wen it was only persians.

    o god. AGAIN search before u speak out u ass. oldest structurs is in turkey 9500 bc, then in malta then UK. then Egypt look in WIKI and tell me where the hell is Meymand?

    Ubaid1 5300bc came from the Samarra culture north iraq. Ubaid2 moved to south iraq (Ur, Dhi Qar)

    "Jiroft culture" has been postulated as an early Bronze Age (late 3000 BC)=not old

  • @Hesam0000 lol ur out of ur mind kiddo.... wiki: type largest empires of worlds history. they can tell u exzaclty the kilometers of each empire owned..... lool @ brittish only attacked poor countires, while the persians shit on them selfs wen england surrounded them. ur talk is irrelevant, u say brittish attacked poor countries wich is iraq while persians attacked strong countries wich is iraq..? lol

    what u mean type google? lol

    me ignorant? wen u talk about persians u mean ONLY perisans idiot

  • @komigennufan Unfortunately Google only teaches people like you the made-up, western version of every story on Iran. Those who have education in history like Dr. Richard Frye know the truth, Dr. Frye even demanded to get buried in Iran after his death & Iran government agreed. Alexander attacked Persia after Persia's army had returned from hundred battles and 2000 miles walk injured & tired. Still he had so much respect for the Persian king that he married his daughter & gave king back his post.

  • @komigennufan You're like Fox-NewsYou twist my words to make them sound wrong!Good try but it won't work.What I wrote was " Persians/People of country called Persia" existed on the land of Persia(even under other names,languages,customes,etc) longer than any other civilization & yes 50,000 yr old bones and 400,000 yr old tools prove that this land has been lived on continuously for a long long time. Unfortunately our neighbors are primitive arabs & fanatic Pakis and poor Afghans, our bad luck.

  • @komigennufan Wrong & more wrong, the people living in America are called Americans no matter what race they are. Same is true about Iranians/Persians/Parsis. Ubaid people lived ONLY near Persian Gulf in today's Kuwait, Basrah area maybe 100 miles to the west, that's all. If bones are found in Iran 50,000 yrs old don't you think those bones had meat and boners on them at one time? HAHAHAHA 2funny. Iranian is not a race it's nationality. But Aryans came from Siberia not India+Partheans+Medes+more

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