A critical analysis of the available accounts given about the United Sates (US) and United Kingdom (UK) – Iraq war (This was actually not a war but deliberate invasion) reveals a very cleverly calculated and planned strategy. The US and UK knew well in advance that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) (If Saddam Hussein had WMD then US and UK might have given him during Iran-...

PURPOSE Nurses played a critical role in performing triage during the Iran-Iraq War. However, their experiences in triage have not been discussed. Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate the triage experiences of civilian nurses during the Iran-Iraq War. METHODS Oral history method and in-depth interviews were used to collect data to gain the nurses' experiences in triage. RESULTS...

this study investigated the rate of reference to iranian literature in psychological and psychiatric studies. for this aim, 45 empirical researched on psychological and psychiatric aspects of imposed iran-iraq war which were published from 1980 to 1996 were studied. 18.6% of their referenes were iranian literatures in the list of references, but only 21.3% of these articles used irainain litera...

background: the main aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of depression and general anxiety of the prisoners of war (pow) children. the study was also designed to compare the prevalence of depression and general anxiety amongst the pow’s children and normal adults, 20 years after the iraq-iran war.method: an analytic cross-sectional study carried out in june 2009 in yazd (the centre o...

centuries of historical rivalry, ethnic particularity, religious and ideological differences, and boundary disputes have been among the major forces contributing to a protracted conflict between iran and its western neigh bors- the ottoman empire from 1517 and iraq since 1920. one of a combination of these factors have caused numerous military hostilities and many full-scale wars. the recent ir...

now that rapid changes in deferent aspects of human life have become a reality, innovations in policies and different programs can not be a motto but a necessity. islamic revolution of iran was an innovative phenomenon and iran-iraq war was a space for our inner abilities and creativities to burst out. doubtlessly, in narrating this war to our next generations, we must consider this principle, ...

During the Iraq-Iran war of 1980 -1988, the most commonly used chemical warfare agents (CWA) were nerve agents and sulfur mustard gas (SM). SM was used frequently as a chemical weapon by Iraq during the war against Iran, and had deleterious effects on Iranian military troops and the unprotected inhabitants of Sardasht, Iran and Halabche, Iraq. In this report, we review the scientific literature...

this essay tries to study the reflection of iran- iraq war in four relatively important and referable encyclopedias (wikipedia, inkarta, conflicts encyclopedia, and britanica). it compares these four encyclopedias' towards the origins of the war, the aggressor, great powers' role, and its results. obviously, knowing other countries' (specially their scientific scholars') att...