 Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Hurumende yeBaath, sezvakaitwa nevakaitangira, yakawana simba nemauto. Kubva kuna Abd al-Karim Qasim kusvika pakutora simba kweBaathist muna 1968, hurumende yeIraq yakanga yatevera mutemo wokuita zvechiuto munzanga. Ikoku kwakatungamirira kukuwedzera kwevakuru vakuru vehondo, avo vakanga varipo pasi poumambo hweHashemite. Vakuru vakuru vemauto zvishoma nezvishoma vakashandukawo kuva vakuru vakuru vezveupfumi, sezvo Iraq yakanga iri hupfumi hwakarongwa; somuenzaniso, hurumende yakasarudza vanhu vemauto kuzvinzvimbo zvepamusoro mumafekitari nemakambani. Nepo nhambo yaibva muna 1960 kusvikira kuna 1980 yakanga ine rugare, ndyiko dzamauto dzakapetwa katatu uye muna 1981 dzakamira paUS4,3 bhiriyoni. Hurumende yakapa kukosha kukuru kukudziridzwa kwechiuto kupfuura kwevasiri varwi. Muna 1981, mari yaishandiswa neIraq kuhondo yaida kuenzana nemari yaitengwa neJodhani neYemen dzasanganiswa. Kuunganidzwa kweuto kwakaitwa kunobvira nemhaka yokubudiswa kweoiri kweIraq uye mutengo mukuru wepasi rose weoiri. Mari inoshandiswa pamunhu mumwe nomumwe nokuda kwezvombo muna 1981 yakanga yakakura ne370 muzana kupfuura iyo inoshandiswa nokuda kwedzidzo. Mukati meHondo yeIran neIraq mari dzehondo dzakawedzera zvikuru apo kukura kwezvemari kwakanga kuri kuderera uye nhamba yevanhu vanoshandira muchiuto yakawedzera kashanu, kusvika kumiriyoni imwe. 