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The US didn't care enough about either side to intervene. The US policy was that they can have their war, but the US didn't want either side to be victorious. Both countries were dangerous, supporters of terrorism.
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@darlenekhin The Iran-Iraq war started about a decade before the Persian Gulf war.
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@iDm0Nd Iraq had a nuclear weapons program, they had a nuclear reactor, which they intended to use against Israel, so Israel destroyed it in a strike. Iraq was at war with the northern Kurdish province that they used chemical weapons on killing 100k. When Iraq was driven out of Kuwait they set wells on fire, and dumped oil into the gulf, wasting enough petrol that the US consumes in a year. It took nearly a year just to put the oil fires out. But the original poster doesn't make any sense. The Iran/Iraq war was 1980-88, and the Gulf War was in 1991.
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