 Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Hukama hwakakanganisika zvakare muna 1979, apo Saddam Hussein akatora chigaro uye Shah weIran akakandirwa pasi muIslamic Revolution uye akatsiviwa nechiShia theocracy pasi paAyatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Hondo yakatanga muna 1980 apo Iraq yakapinda muIran, ichitungamirira kuHondo yeIran-Iraq yemakore masere. Inenge hondo yose yevhu yakarwiwa iri pedyo nemuganhu wenyika dzakawanda, kunyange zvazvo kurwisana kwakaguma nekusagadzikana uye mushure mekuguma kwekurwisana hakuna kuchinja kumuganhu kwakaitwa. Ukama hwakadzorerwa muna 1990 uye hwakavandudzika zvikuru kubva pakukundwa kwehurumende muna 1990 nehurumende yaVaMugabe.raSaddam Hussein muna 2003. 