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The Iran-Iraq war lasted for more than 8 years, from 1980 to 1988 one of the longest in the 20th century and certainly one of the largest conventional wars since WWII. Your challenge here is to make the Iran-Iraq War, which had already cost a million casualties on both sides, last even longer. Both of the regimes had the political will to fight on, Sadaam's Iraq and Iran's Islamic regime under Khomeini only stopped because the UN supported treaty had come at a time when both sides were completely, I mean, completely, deadlocked.

With that in mind, how can you make it so that the Iraq-Iran War lasts as long as possible, well into the 1990's and possibly beyond. How might the rest of the world react to the seemingly endless confrontation between Iraq and Iran?
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