Iraqi support for Arab separatists in Iran increased following the outbreak of hostilities Saddam disputedly may have wished to annex Iran's Arab-majority Khuzestan province. The Iran–Iraq War followed a long-running history of territorial border disputes between the two states, as a result of which Iraq planned to retake the eastern bank of the Shatt al-Arab that it had ceded to Iran in the 1975 Algiers Agreement. Iraq also wished to replace Iran as the power player in the Persian Gulf, which was not seen as an achievable objective prior to the Islamic Revolution because of Pahlavi Iran's economic and military superiority as well as its close relationships with the United States and Israel. There were also fears among the Iraqi leadership of Saddam Hussein that Iran, a theocratic state with a population predominantly composed of Shia Muslims, would exploit sectarian tensions in Iraq by rallying Iraq's Shia majority against the Baʽathist government, which was officially secular and dominated by Sunni Muslims. Iraq's primary rationale for the attack against Iran cited the need to prevent Ruhollah Khomeini-who had spearheaded the Iranian Revolution in 1979-from exporting the new Iranian ideology to Iraq. Active hostilities began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran and lasted for eight years, until the acceptance of United Nations Security Council Resolution 598 by both sides. The Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. Iranian offensives to free Iranian territory (1981–82)

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