1974–75 Shatt al-Arab conflict
The 1974–1975 Shatt al-Arab conflict consisted of armed cross-border clashes between Iran and Iraq. It was a major escalation of the Shatt al-Arab dispute, which had begun in 1936 due to opposing territorial claims by both countries over the Shatt al-Arab, a transboundary river that runs partly along the Iran–Iraq border. The conflict took place between April 1974 and March 1975, and resulted in over 1,000 total casualties for both sides combined, though the Iranians eventually came to hold a strategic advantage over the Iraqis. Open hostilities formally came to an end with the 1975 Algiers Agreement, in which Iraq ceded around half of the border area containing the waterway in exchange for Iran's cessation of support for Iraqi Kurdish rebels.
| 1974–1975 Shatt al-Arab conflict | |||||||||
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| Part of the Shatt al-Arab dispute and the Second Iraqi–Kurdish War | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Iran United States Israel KDP |
Iraq Soviet Union | ||||||||
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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) |
Saddam Hussein (Vice President of Iraq) | ||||||||
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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1,000+ killed or wounded (total) | |||||||||