the factors affecting the understanding the nature of the iran-iraq war

understanding the fundamental issues of the iran-iraq war as well as the factors affecting understanding the nature of it is the most important window to the correct understanding the history of the holy defense. if done correctly, this will provide an opportunity to understand the trends and events of the iran-iraq war which regardless of political and factional controversies, it paves the ground for research about this war. in the third course of a training workshop for writing a chronology held in center for holy defense documentation and research, the officials and administrators of the workshop invited dr. hussein ardestani, a historian and narrator of the holy defense era, to teach a lesson plan for familiarity with the general developments of the holy defense era to the participants who were some of the students of phd courses within two compressed lecture sessions. this article is the text of what he has presented in his lectures.