When the Iraq-Iran War broke out in 1980, some 3, 000 workers on the project had to be evacuated overnight.
This specter of an Israel-Iran war, whoever starts it, has become a looming threat for IT and communication systems everywhere.
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He convinced Khomeini to end the Iran-Iraq war and broke Iran's international isolation by establishing trade relations with the Soviet Union, China, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
During the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, Iraq used chemical weapons against Iran.
In 1987, Gangel covered the Iran-Iraq war as part of the Pentagon pool in the Persian Gulf.
Mr Mousavi served as prime minister during the years of the Iran-Iraq war from 1980-1988.
Amid the drums of war Iran, too, has been sounding a quieter leitmotif of compromise.
In its handling of the Iran-Iraq War, the Reagan administration adopted a policy of dual containment.
After the Iran-Iraq war, the Basij returned to its role as an internal security force to enforce Islamic morality.
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Khomeini made him Minister of the Revolutionary Guards to quash internal dissent and smuggle in weapons for the Iran-Iraq war.
In the 1980s, during the Iran-Iraq war, managers reportedly buried the wells, concerned that they might be targeted by Iranian forces.
Many Iraqi soldiers never returned from the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, the first Gulf War in 1991, and the latest conflict.
Iraq and Iran fought a war in the 1980s that spanned eight years and killed at least a half-million people, by some estimates.
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Similarly in Iraq, the Shia conscripts who make up the bulk of the army saved the country from defeat during the Iran-Iraq war.
Inpex, which is closely linked to the Japanese government, says it's waiting for Iran to clear away mines left over from the Iran-Iraq War.
Iraqi government forces attacked the town near the Iranian border after it was taken over by Kurdish rebels towards the end of the Iran-Iraq war.
Ebrahimi was a founding member of the Ansar-e Hezbollah group, which like many others has its roots in the Iran-Iraq war in the late 1980s.
Having served as prime minister during the traumatic 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, he has shied away from politics since then, and so remains something of an unknown.
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There were some sales of helicopters and aircraft early in the Iran-Iraq war that were said to be for civilian or agricultural purposes but not much.
He may, however, now back a tougher reformist alternative in the person of Mir Hosein Mousavi, prime minister during Iran's war with Iraq in the 1980s.
The Iran-Iraq war was one of the most brutal conflicts of the 20th century, an attritional stalemate that took the lives of an estimated one million people.
It had just been set up by Iranians as a way of helping the thousands of refugees who were heading towards Iran, fearing war in their own country.
In scenes reminiscent of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, ordinary Iranians responded to the disaster by piling up food and clothes at collection points across the country.
Iraq's pavilion includes artists such as Ahmed Alsoudani and Halim al Karim, who grew up experiencing the Iran-Iraq war, Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, economic sanctions and subsequent artistic isolation.
And they say, well we, in, during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980's, which lasted eight years, we faced limited resources, limited imports, and limited exports of our oil.
The programme also continued to chart the ongoing problems in the Middle East. 1982 saw the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the Iran-Iraq war spanned almost the whole decade.
Originally founded as the construction and engineering branch of the IRGC at the end of the Iran-Iraq War, Ghorb initially focused on reconstruction, but it soon ventured into other fields.
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They stick it out through the Iran-Iraq war and the birth of two children, leaving for good a decade ago when Ms Nafisi received a fellowship from Johns Hopkins University.
Immediately after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in April 2003, some 100, 000 Iraqi exiles who had lived in Iran since the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s entered the city.
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