Iran–Iraq border
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The Iran–Iraq border runs for 1,599 km from the tripoint with Turkey in the north down to the Shatt al-Arab waterway and out to the Persian Gulf in the south. Although the boundary was first determine
An Iran-Iraq border crossing in Mehran in 2015
1975 Algiers Agreement
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The 1975 Algiers Agreement, also known as the Algiers Accords and the Algiers Declaration, was signed between Iran and Iraq to settle any outstanding territorial disputes along the Iran–Iraq border. M
Iran–Iraq border
…the Shatt al-Arab. In retaliation Iraq supported Arab separatists in Iran's oil-rich Khuzestan province, with Iran supporting Kurdish rebels in Iraq. A peace agreement was signed on 6 March 1975 in Algiers in which both parties pledged to further demarcate the border, both on land and in the Shatt al-Arab, based upon the Erzurum Treaty and Constantinople…
Left-to-right: Iranian monarch Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Algerian president Houari Boumédiène Iraqi vice president Saddam Hussein
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi 1973
Saddam Hussein at trial, July 2004