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Rule of Shatt al-Arab

Name: Rule of Shatt al-Arab – Iraq factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Iraq · Government / Ba'ath Socialist Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1979Date range

1Named people

1Places

Chronological records

1979

Saddam Hussein17 September 1979

Shatt al-Arab · Government / Ba'ath Socialist Party

Iraq breaks its 1975 Treaty with Iran & declares sovereignty over Shatt al-Arab

Names involved

Saddam Hussein

Provenance

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