Iran Iraq war, Which country lost more ?

nope, one of teh most famous chants during the revolution was " we dont want the west, we dont want the north (USSR), all we want is islam"

no one helped iran, why cant you guys admit that.

for iranians, we have already fought WWIII.

No, not really. They supported Iraq much much much much mcuh much more, all they did was sell us kalashnakovs.

I remember propaganda pictures from teh time showed Iranian soldiers wmarching over three flags, British, American and USSR.

what? pst. the 15 million dollars worth of guns the USA gave us. what BS is that?

yea, a lot of help iran got. 15 million dollars, ONCE, compared to the billions iraq got in logistics, technology, military equipment, funding, etc...

the fact is that everyone in the world knew that iran would have crushed iraq.

the USA knew, western europe knew it, the USSR knew it.

when iran pushed iraq back after 2 years and then proceeded into iraq itself, the rest of the world got worried.

iraq was about to collapse, so the west and the USSR started helping iraq militarily, financially, logistically, etc....

iraq would have lost but in order to keep the balance of power in the Persian Gulf region they helped iraq.

Iran certainly paid a much higher price for the war, but in military terms, it was also a clear victory for Iran. Iraq did not achieve any of its stated objectives, and in fact was put into the position of defending their own territory at one point. Iran, on the other hand, fulfilled all of the objectives of any defender: to retain ownership of their land, drive the war back onto the enemy's territory, and punish the attacker. They also established their reputation for defence, while Iraq only established the fact that even given a technological advantage its forces were not capable of succesful aggression against comparable powers.

A pyrrhic victory to be sure, but clearly a victory for Iran nonetheless.

According to what I know, women were used in the frontline. My source is a famous Turkish political history professor, Fahir Armaoglu, who had made his doctorate at Harvard University,but of course, that doesn't mean every stuff he says is true

A lot of the common people would have fought to the death, no doubt, but a few traitors in high places would have helped Saddam a great deal.

no, iranians would have fought to death for the regime in 1980.

the anti regime sentiments started after the war. and iranians would have defended their country no matter what, whether it be fighting for the mullahs or whoever else. iranians dont like their country being invaded.

even today, all the anti mullah spokesman that want the US to invade iran are considered traitors in iran by the public. that is the same reason why the MKO followers are considered traitors.

Saddam was retarded in that when he invaded he declared that he was going to annex Khuzestan and didn't lie and say he wanted to depose the mullahs.  Immediately all Iranians united to defend the nation, when Saddam could have caused old regime loyalists to join him in his campaign to depose the mullahs.  They would have noticed his duplicity only when it was too late.

Definitely...Mullahs strengthened their regime due to war...People of Iran had to consider about the Iraqi threat of invasion instead of regime, and by that way, Mullahs' regime strengthened.