This war saw the first attack on a nuclear reactor when one side bombed facilities at Osirak, and a dispute over Khuzestan [koo-zeh-stan] helped start this war.
This war saw the first attack on a nuclear reactor when one side bombed facilities at Osirak, and a dispute over Khuzestan [koo-zeh-stan] helped start this war. One side's Halabja [hah-lahb-jah] gas attack targeted Kurds, while the other bought arms with money that would finance (*) Nicaraguan contras. Starting in 1980, for 10 points, name this war begun by Saddam Hussein's invasion of its northeastern neighbor, an Islamic republic.
This war saw the first attack on a nuclear reactor when one side bombed facilities at Osirak, and a dispute over Khuzestan [koo-zeh-stan] helped start this war.
Iran-Iraq War (accept in either order, must have both names)