Vindicating The Poisoned Chalice: Iran’s Creeping Invasion Of Iraq – Analysis

By Ofra Bengio

**Introduction**

For much of the twentieth century, Iran and Iraq have had an antagonistic relationship that culminated in the Iran-Iraq War. In 1988, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini was forced to drink the “poisoned chalice” by agreeing to a ceasefire with Iraq, a concession that extinguished...