Saddam vs. Ayatollah

In our previous episode on the Iranian revolution, we left the
Ayatollah Khomeini sitting high and mighty in Tehran. Little did he
know, next door in Baghdad, an Arab strongman nursed revolutionary,
expansionary ambitions of his own: Saddam Hussein, the Lion of the
Arabs and Defender of the Eastern Gate, the ultimate symbol of
corrupt and tyrannical dictatorship. Taking up where we left off
back in episode 9, with Iraq reeling from the bloody 1958 coup that
replaced the Hashemite monarchy with a military dictatorship, this
episode describes Saddam’s blood-soaked rise to power and his
tragic and ultimately futile decision to invade Iran, thus
inaugurating the 20th century’s bloodiest and costliest
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