sep 20, 1980 - The Iran-Iraq War Begins
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This is the date that a full scale invasion of Oran was lanced by Iraq leader Saddam Hussein. According to Saddam this was in order to stop Khomeini's movement and to stop him exporting his Islamic revolution into Iraq.
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