When you here his name you can't help thinking about terrorism and death and nuclear weapons. ... Soon he had a firm grip over the infrastructure of the country and he began to control Iraq's oil and industrial enterprises. ... Iran used to make 7 million barrels of crude oil a day until their oil terminals were eliminated by more then 9,000 bombing raids during the Iran-Iraq War thus leading to the tanker War, which lasted three years (1984-1987). ... Repeated Iraqi efforts failed to put Iran's main oil exporting terminal at Khark Islands out of order. ... And that's when ...

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