Ebook: The Islamic Revolution and the Imposed War

The triumph of the Islamic Revolution of Iran with its new criteria shook the unsteady foundations of regional reactionary and subservient governments which joined each other and put their efforts into suppressing the Iranian Revolution and to prevent its expansion.
The U.S.A., too, lost its greatest stronghold in the region. All its local oil interests and other valuable resources. It could, therefore, by no means, tolerate the continuation of such a Revolution, especially when it realized that its oil interests were thus endangered in other countries in the region as well, and that the Iranian Revolution was going to spread to neighboring countries to eradicate colonialism and foreign exploitation in those lands.
International Zionism also, having lost its greatest friend and base in the region was now faced with a new powerful, revolutionary and intrepid foe, and therefore it could not remain silent.
Finally, as a quietus, Iraq, imagining that the new regime in Iran was at the point of downfall, launched an all-out attack on Iran. At 2 P.M. on September 22, 1980, Iraqi aircrafts bombed Tehran airport and airports in most other cities. Twelve Iraqi divisions, which had long been kept in a state of combat-preparedness beyond the frontier started their all-out invasion along the 800 km. border from the north of Qasr-i-Shirin to Khorramshahr and Abadan. While the Iranian Army was occupied with internal difficulties, some people chanted slogans for its dissolution, others gave vent to the grudges accumulated against the army during the past decades, and still others tried to slaughter the army like sacrificial sheep.