Freedom of Iraqi disabled prisoners

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Iraq wanted to replace Iran as the dominant Persian Gulf state, and was worried that the 1979 persian Revolution would lead Iraq’s Shi’ite majority to rebel against the Ba’athist government. The war also followed a long history of border disputes, and Iraq planned to annex the oil-rich Khuzestan Province and the east bank of the Shatt al-Arab (Arvand Rud).

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