Tag: Iraq

In this episode, Boris Gorelik hosts Prof. Amatzia Baram for a conversation about Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Prof. Baram analyzes the reasons that led Saddam Hussein to invade the neighboring country, the consequences of this move for the Arab world, and the turn Saddam's regime took following the war.

In this episode of "This Week in the Middle East," Professor Amatzia Baram, an expert on Iraq, joins the show to discuss the reasons that led to the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War in 1980. According to Baram, it was a "strange war": an initiative by one country, Iraq, to attack a country three times its size, Iran, which was in the midst of a vibrant Islamic revolution. Baram explains the chain of events and motives that led Saddam Hussein to make this risky decision.

The episode features Colonel (ret.) Pesach Malovany, a former Aman officer and a researcher of Arab armies, for a conversation about the Iran-Iraq War. Malovany, author of the books "The Wars of Modern Babylon," "From the North Evil Shall Break Forth," and others, served as an Aman officer dealing with Iraq at the beginning of the war. In the conversation, he analyzes the reasons for the outbreak of the war, which was the longest in the Middle East in the 20th century, its main developments, and its outcomes.