Iraq Iran War

The new government was trying to restore peace and prosperity to the country when it faced a sudden and unexpected overall land and air attack against the country's western frontiers by the Iraqi armed forces on 22 September 1980. This Imposed War, which was defined as an aggression on Iran and a just defense by the Iranians, developed into a war of attrition for eight years and ended in mid- 1988 following Iran's acceptance of the UN Resolution 598. But instead of causing the immediate collapse of the Iranian government, the Iraqi attack served to unite most of the political and religious groups around the new government and the Iranian resistance proved much more effective than Iraq had expected.