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IRAQ VS IRANThese 2 neighbouring superpower wannabes have been engaged in border skirmishes and the occasional full-scale invasion for centuries. However, with the advent of both chemical and biological weapons, these wars have turned increasingly bloody. Both Iran and Iraq are parties to the Geneva Protocol, having signed it on 1929 and 1931 respectively.
Basically, this protocol disallows its member nations from using any form of chemical and bacteriological agents against another country. Ever since the late seventies and early eighties, a series of ghastly chemical skirmishes have been exposed by the UN. In November 1980, Tehran Radio revealed that the Iraqi's had deployed chemical bombs at Susangerd. The international community did not pay much attention.
It was only around 4 years later, when the Iranian Foreign Minister informed the Conference of Disarmament in Geneva that there had been over 45 documented accounts of Iraqi troops attacking both civilians and military personnel in the hotly contested border regions. The death toll was catastrophic, with 109 people dead and hundreds more wounded.
On the very same day, Iran started a major offensive and a week later, a series of attacks and counter attacks was launched further south, in the border marshlands to the north of Basra where Iraq has vast unexploited oil and gas reserves. In the months after the Foreign Minister's allegations, Iraq used chemical weapons on at least 14 other occasions, injuring more than 2200 people.