{"id":3742,"date":"2016-04-13T19:48:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T16:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=3742"},"modified":"2016-03-16T19:49:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T16:49:17","slug":"what-were-the-causes-and-consequences-of-the-iran-iraq-war-1980-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/what-were-the-causes-and-consequences-of-the-iran-iraq-war-1980-88\/","title":{"rendered":"What were the causes and consequences of the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-88?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/igcse\/why_did_events_in_the_gulf_matter.php\">Part of the IGCSE Paper 2 Study Topic: &#8220;Why did Events in the Gulf Matter?&#8221;<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>What were the causes and consequences of the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-88?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/igcse\/why_did_events_in_the_gulf_matter\/iran-iraq-war1.docx\">Task: A biased government speech explaining the causes of the war<\/a><br \/>\nOn the 22nd September 1980, the longest conventional war of the 20th Century began when Iraq launched an invasion of Iran. The Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, dubbed it the &#8220;Whirlwind War&#8221; in which he expected Iran to be defeated relatively swiftly due to the turmoil it was experiencing after the overthrow of the Shah by Ayatollah Khomeini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the IGCSE Paper 2 Study Topic: &#8220;Why did Events in the Gulf Matter?&#8221; What were the causes and consequences of the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-88? Task: A biased government speech explaining the causes of the war On the 22nd September 1980, the longest conventional war of the 20th Century began when Iraq launched an&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/what-were-the-causes-and-consequences-of-the-iran-iraq-war-1980-88\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[503,501,502,396],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-Ym","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3743,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions\/3743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}