Iran-Iraq war (sep 22, 1980 – aug 20, 1988)
Description:
they went into the war because of the need to prevent Ruhollah Khomeini and he had spearheaded Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979 from exporting the new Iranian ideology to IraqAdded to timeline:
Date:
sep 22, 1980
aug 20, 1988
~ 7 years and 10 months