Comments by "Gugle Yuser" (@fwfeo) on "The Armchair Historian" channel.

These names were all Arabic names and based on Islamic ideology. They cloaked everything in religious ideology! One of the names was "road to dome of the rock" if I haven't mistaken! Tariq al-Qods! Losts Karablas! Because Karabla is a holy site for Shia's...
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Well, I was two years old when it started and I lived till I was 21 in Khuzestan. I have vivid memories of a couple of air raids to our town Shoushtar. We were the lucky one with two air raids, because 40 miles away Dezful was raided 259 times if I remember correctly! You could still see damaged houses around downtown Dezful till 1998!
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Iranians were not going to allow it! They would fight with rocks if they had to. Those young met we lost, we're the same brave souls who put their lives on the line to oppose shah! We lost a who generation of truly selfless and courageous people! No wonder Iran hasn't had a revolution since! Because those men would be back on the streets if the government didn't deliver what they promised.
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10:50 Bro! Peshmarga force and the Kurds are in the northern Iraq in the mountains! The southern part of Iraq is Shia Arabs. Those marshes are were the marsh Arabs lived and Saddam subsequently brought an ecological disaster by drying out those beautiful marshes! Those marshes are super green and beautiful, but hot and humid and full of mosquitoes, jackals and camel spiders... I served on that border so, I would know!
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As an Iranian kid living about 100-150 miles from the front lines, I saw exhausted young soldiers dragged to our local hospital with purple blisters. We had heard of the chemical attacks, but I actually saw those poor soldiers by accident when I had to go to hospital! The hypocrisy of the US and the west is disgusting! Iraq committed great many war crimes, but nobody uttered a word, rather they provided the Intel and weapons to facilitate it! Shameful!
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Russia has Muslims within its borders, so didn't want the idea of an Islamic revolution in their sphere. US lost shah, and Iran was a challenge to the US hegemony in the middle east sitting on all those weapons, so it was in everyone's interest except Iran and Iraq to have that war!
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@lilmane1070 Ahvaz is capital of Khuzestan province. It's the southwestern corner of Iran, bordering the Persian gulf and southern Iraq, across from Basrah. I served on that border in 1998.
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@Eshray speaking of PTSD, I didn't know I had it from two airstrikes on shoushtar, but I realized I have it, when the Blue Angels air show broke the sound barrier over the city in the US and I was at work! I started coursing out and was out over the edge by that sudden explosion sound and I was very angry from that. The sudden change of mood brought to surface the fears of a 10 year old boy which was running home from school when the sirens were going off! My brother and I huddled with my mom in the middle of our house and hoped for the best! Both times a bunch of our windows shattered from the shock wave of the explosion.
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Starting with a 13 year old "conscript" is such bad start! Iran didn't have to force anyone to serve besides the ones who were 18-20 and not qualified for the university. 13 year old and anyone younger or older were volunteers! Many thousands volunteered to serve. But the government certainly did not grab anyone who was underage to be forced to the war. So these people were pretty brave, and not shaking in their boots! Saddam Hussein ordered Iranian cities bombed in order to break our spirit, but it only galvanized our resolve to defend our nation! The management of the war and leadership were questionable and irresponsible at best, but it doesn't take away from the bravery and sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of Iranians!
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