The Complete List Of Countries That Iran Has Invaded In The Last 200 Years

[Jcrowley]

[Poiuyt]

1. We'd better put a stop to them

[Tinksrival]

2. .

[jschurchin]

3. K&R

People need to see this.

[all.of.me]

4. hehehe good one.

[karlrschneider]

5. I didn't see Persia on the list...

oh, wait...

[helderheid]

6. You forgot Poland!

er, wait...

[loudsue]

47. Tea just went all over the place...

:rofl: damn it helderheid!! :rofl::rofl:

[Rex]

7. Well see! There ya go and make the point! It is high time Iran invade someone!

My God, how overdue are they!? How bout North Korea? Way overdue. :crazy:

[Jcrowley]

9. True-True

Wannabes.

[beyurslf]

8. Hey. We have never invaded any country that didn't have something that

was our god-given right to take away from them.

[magellan]

10. Yeah, okay. But who have they THOUGHT about invading?

We must pre-empt their fantasies! Emissions of precious bodily fluids can not be allowed!!

[Lasher]

26. I'm sure they have had invasion program related activities.

Simply stated, there is no doubt Iran has plans to invade other countries. We know what they are. They're going to invade the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.

[rec_report]

11. K&R. n/t

[The Doctor.]

12. Does "Iran" count? n/t

[Jcrowley]

13. I think it should

[eridani]

15. That would make a nice edumacational postcard

Do you know if it's copyrighted?

[Jcrowley]

18. Nah

Open source

[eleny]

14. Some have said...

[rosesaylavee]

16. Could we tell them its ok a neighboring country privately

and then smack them with shock and awe when they have the audacity to believe we meant it? That's worked so well before for us. :eyes:

[mmonk]

17. Yeah, but what about before then?

[Leopolds Ghost]

33. They invaded Greece -- as the media keeps reminding us (forgetting that the Greeks were agressors.)

And they forced their slaves to fight because of their powers of tyranny and mysticism, whereas the Greek slaves VOLUNTEERED to fight in the cause of democracy (well, actually, er, no, the only democratic nation involved, Athens, was burned to the ground by Persia, but it survived, so presumably democracy would have perished from the earth, if Persia had actually won. Because then Alexander the Great wouldn't have conqurered both Persia and combined Greek and Persian culture into a neoclassical civilization ruled by inbred totalitarian generals, after killing hundreds of thousands of Greeks and destroying the Greek city states, after the no-longer-democratic Athenian empire had been softened up by rebellious fellow Greeks who didn't appreciate her hypocrisy on the subject of democracy and "free" trade, and Rome wouldn't have beat Carthage and Roman democracy wouldn't have flourished, and -- nevermind. just, nevermind.)

[TexasLawyer]

19. Actually Iran did invade Iraq on several occasions

in the 8 year war between those two countries. But it looks like Iraq was the initial aggressor in that war.

The war began when Iraq invaded Iran on 22 September 1980 following a long history of border disputes and demands for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime. Although the Iraqis attacked without formal warning, they failed to make progress and were soon repelled by the Iranians. Despite several calls for a ceasefire by the United Nations Security Council, hostilities continued until 20 August 1988; the last prisoners of war were exchanged in 2003. The war altered regional and even global politics.

The war is also noted for Iraq's extensive use of chemical and biological weapons against Iranian troops and civilians as well as Iraqi Kurds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War

[mmonk]

20. Now where did Iraq get those biological and chemical weapons?

[Jcrowley]

21. Mixing Q's and N's

Read again:

The war began when Iraq invaded Iran on 22 September 1980 following a long history of border disputes and demands for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime. Although the Iraqis attacked without formal warning, they failed to make progress and were soon repelled by the Iranians.

<snip>

Early History

Although the Iran-Iraq war of 1980–1988 was a war for dominance of the Persian Gulf region, the roots of the war go back many centuries. There has been rivalry between kingdoms of Mesopotamia (the Tigris-Euphrates valley, modern Iraq) and the rugged highlands to the East (modern Persia or Iran) since the beginning of recorded history in Sumer.

More precisely, the origins of the Iran-Iraq war of 1980–1988 go back to the question of sovereignty over the resource-rich province of Khuzestan. Khuzestan was home to the Elamite Empire, an independent, non-Semitic, and non-Indo-European-speaking kingdom, whose capital was Susa and the territory of which spanned almost exclusively in what is now Iran. Khuzestan has been attacked and occupied by various kingdoms of Mesopotamia...

...But, today's border comes from Qasr-e-Shirin treaty. Modern Iraq was created with British involvement in the region...

In 1969, the deputy prime minister of Iraq openly declared: "Iraq's dispute with Iran is in connection with Arabistan (Khuzestan) which is part of Iraq's soil and was annexed to Iran during foreign rule." Soon Iraqi radio stations began exclusively broadcasting into "Arabistan", encouraging Arabs living in Iran and even Bal?ch?s to revolt against the Shah of Iran's government. Basra TV stations even began showing Iran's Khuzestan province as part of Iraq's new province called Nasiriyyah, renaming all Iranian cities with Arabic names.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War

[TexasLawyer]

23. I was referring to the many Iranian operations during the war

in which Iran invaded Iraq.

List of major Iranian operations during the war


5. 14 July-28 July 1982: Operation Ramadhan; Failed Iranian offensive to capture Basra.

6. 9 April-17 April 1983: Operation Valfajr-1; Failed Iranian offensive in Ein Khosh to capture Basra-Baghdad highway.

7. 19 October-mid November 1983: Operation Valfajr-4; Iranian offensive in Iraq's Kurdistan near Panjwin makes small gains.

8. 22 February-16 March 1984: Operation Kheibar; Iranian offensive captures the Iraqi Majnoon Islands in the Haur al-Hawizeh marshes.

9. 10 March-20 March 1985: Operation Badr; Unsuccessful Iranian offensive to capture the Basra-Baghdad highway.

10. 9 February-25 February 1986: Operation Valfajr-8; Three-pronged Iranian offensive leads to capture of Fao peninsula.

11. 2 June 1986: Operation Karbala-1.

12. 1 September 1986: Operation Karbala-2; Iranian offensive in the Hajj Umran area of Iraqi Kurdistan.

13. 9 January-26 February 1987: Operation Karbala-5; Iranian offensive in southern Iraq to capture Basra.

14. 21 June 1987: Operation Nasr 4.

15. 16 March 1988: Operation Valfajr-10; Iranian offensive in Iraqi Kurdistan.

16. 27 July 1988: Operation Mersad.

[Leopolds Ghost]

34. Notice how wikipedia inaccurately refuses to call it the "first Persian Gulf War"

Because the Persian Gulf War was exactly what it was called before Bush I and II came along.

[The Count]

22. But, but...just the other day, at the movies - saw them with my own eyes!

(not really - but they think it just happened - after all, 300 is made after a comic book)

[UrbScotty]

24. That's a Brazilian! (nt)

[Gabi Hayes]

25. can we add those dirty rotten venezuelan commies to the list?

you know they want to take over all of south america and subjugate them to the fastest growing economy on the continent

bastards.

[leftofthedial]

27. now there's a compelling argument

for preemption

[Canuckistanian]

28. Good work!

Very comprehensive list!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

29. Well, technically, one country ...

... Back in Prez Carter's reign, Iran invaded the sovereign territory of the U.S. when they overran the U.S. embassy and held all the inhabitants.

[sanskritwarrior]

30. I don't mean to be a dick........

but you are wrong

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Persian_War%2C_1826-1828

Although there was no formal declaration of war, the 35,000-strong Persian army, led by Abbaz Mirza, crossed the border on 16 July and invaded the Khanate of Talysh and Karabakh. The Azerbaijani khans quickly switched sides and surrendered their principal cities — Lenkoran, Quba, Baku — to the Persians. Aleksey Yermolov, Russia's General Governor of Caucasus, feeling that he did not have sufficient resources to counter the invasion, refused to commit Russian troops to battle and ordered Ganja, the most populous city in Azerbaijan, to be abandoned. In Shusha, a small Russian garrison managed to hold out until 5 September when General Madatov's reinforcement arrived to their reli

Also this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qajar_dynasty

Fath Ali Shah's reign saw increased diplomatic contacts with the West and the beginning of intense European diplomatic rivalries over Iran. His grandson Mohammad Shah, who fell under the influence of Russia and made two unsuccessful attempts to capture Herat, succeeded him in 1834. When Mohammad Shah died in 1848 the succession passed to his son Nasser-e-Din, who proved to be the ablest and most successful of the Qajar sovereigns.

Also this one 203 years old so maybe it doesn't count.............

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fath_Ali_Shah

So it looks like Afghanistan and Russia........Again not trying to be a dick, just trying to be as accurate as possible......

[Bucky]

41. No, you're just being factual. If you were being a dick, you would've shot the OP in the face.

Some jokes just never get old.

[Skidmore]

31. Iran throughout history has been invaded many times over and

stayed firmly and deeply rooted as a people. Even Alexander the Great couldn't destroy it. You know, they say that if you scratch an Iranian, you'll find a Greek. Iran has absorbed invaders and assimilated them. It'll be there along after we've fought our way into extinction as nation. Iranians are a great people with a long and rich history.

[CoffeeCat]

32. But...but...but....

...they've got yellow cake (with chocolate frosting!) and I hear they
make it in mobile weapons laboratories!

We must invade now! ...or else the next threat to our existence
will come in the form of a mushroom soup!

We know that they've got weapons in the north, east, west and south!

Come on! It'll be fun! We'll be greeted as liberators!

...or something like that.

[Leopolds Ghost]

35. It'll be fun! Come with me, or you'll be... er... late! Yes, um, as in, "the late, great US of A"

My name is not important... Aw, who am I kidding.

I wasn't cut out for this Iraq Mark 2 stuff......

Norway, now there's a country.

--Slartibartfast

[hyphenate]

48. Where the hell

did they get enough eggs to make yellow cake?

And were the chickens factory chickens or free range?

"We must protect our phoney baloney jobs, gentlemen!"

[MethuenProgressive]

36. Iran (Persia) invaded Russia in 1826.

Look up the 1828 Treaty of Turkomanchay.
(sorry about providing facts, it was a clever thread, though...)

[Jcrowley]

37. My bad

It's true and I knew it but 181 years seemed a clumsy title.

[BlooInBloo]

38. Anyone got a list of the countries the US has invaded in the same period?

[Time for change]

39. From "Overthrow -- America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq"

This includes covert regime changes as well as actual invasions:

Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Phillipines, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Hondorus, Iran, Guatemala (again), Vietnam, Chile, Grenada, Panama, Afghanistan, Iraq.

This list leaves out countries that we invaded as part of a larger international effort, such as Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, and those involved in the WW II effort.

Also leaves out Mexico, since that invasion occurred prior to the time period of the book. And most important of all, the many Native American lands that we invaded from well prior to the birth of our country to near the end of the 19th Century.

[orleans]

40. now everyone should see: WHY WE FIGHT -- it's on google video n/t

[Jcrowley]

42. The following is a partial list of U.S. military interventions from 1890 to 2006

This guide does not include:

mobilizations of the National Guard
offshore shows of naval strength
reinforcements of embassy personnel
the use of non-Defense Department personnel (such as the Drug Enforcement Administration)
military exercises
non-combat mobilizations (such as replacing postal strikers)
the permanent stationing of armed forces
covert actions where the U.S. did not play a command and control role
the use of small hostage rescue units
most uses of proxy troops
U.S. piloting of foreign warplanes
foreign or domestic disaster assistance
military training and advisory programs not involving direct combat
civic action programs
and many other military activities.

http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/interventions.html

[treestar]

51. The majority of Republicans voted for Lieberman over their

own repuke candidate?

[Dave From Canada]

43. I don't understand the purpose ot fhis thread. Can someone please explain???

[BlooInBloo]

44. To be helpful to the between-the-lines-challenged, I explicitly asked the complementary question....

... in post #38.

[LSK]

45. there is no historical evidence that Iran is a threat to anybody

Clear enough????

[Dave From Canada]

46. Why is that significant? Does that mean that Iran can't be a threat to anyone in the present or

future? Plus, I would dispute that premise especially after the proxy war fought between Israel and Iran in Lebanon last summer.

[walldude]

49. Now that was fucking funny.....

Good thing I wasn't drinking when the thread opened.. :toast:

[Jcrowley]

50. Backatcha'

:toast:

It's a small world
You don't have to pay attention
It's the reservation
The news don't give it a mention

[treestar]

52. And as long as it doesn't include the U.S., it is the problem of

the country invading. We have been framed into the concept that we are the world police and have to stop and remember that even if Iran did invade Iraq, it would be up to Iraq to respond.