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Are any of these scenarios for the Iran-Iraq War having a clear victor particularly plausible?

  • Iraq manages to completely occupy Khuzestan in 1981
  • Iran captures Basra
  • Iran captures Kirkuk
  • Iran captures Suliemaniya
  • Kurdistan successfully secedes from Iraq
  • United States formally joins the war on Iraq's side
  • Iran successfully closes the Straits of Hormuz
  • Iran manages to reach the Iraq-Kuwait border
  • Iraq follows up on their successes in 1988 and launches another full-scale invasion of Iran using chemical weapons
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