Iran Irak kriget döläget.

[Hans]

En pipeline.

In April 1982, the rival Baathist regime in Syria, one of the few nations that supported Iran, closed the Kirkuk–Banias pipeline that had allowed Iraqi oil to reach tankers on the Mediterranean, reducing the Iraqi budget by US$5 billion per month.[25] Journalist Patrick Brogan wrote, "It appeared for a while that Iraq would be strangled economically before it was defeated militarily."[30]:263 Syria's closure of the Kirkuk-Banis pipeline left Iraq with the pipeline to Turkey as the only mean of exporting oil. However, that pipeline had a capacity of only 500,000 barrels per day (79,000 m3/d), which was insufficient to pay for the war.[26]:160 However, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the other Gulf states saved Iraq from bankruptcy[25] by providing it with an average of $60 billion in subsidies per year
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkuk%E2% ... l_Pipeline

Jag hittade en uppgift om en Iransk attack 1980 men inget mer och inga detaljer.

MVH

Hans

Edit: http://www.fas.org/man/crs/RL32025.pdf Table 8, export under kriget.

[Per Andersson]

I avdelningen boktips, så vill jag nog nämna Robert Fisk's 'The Great War For Civilization'.

Den täcker inte bara Iran-Irak*, men under krigets gång så gjorde Fisk reportage från bägge sidor, och han är en bra reporter.


*) Den täcker i princip alla mellanösternkrig efter Yom-Kippur utom det libanesiska inbördesktriget.
Det libanesiska kriget har en alldeles egen bok, 'Pity the Nation'.