Whakaoti i te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 1981, i whakahaerehia e Iharaira te Operation Opera i Ba'athist Iraq, i te mea i whakaekehia e te Air Force o Iharaira, i angitu te whakangaromanga i tetahi miihini karihi o Iraq i hangaia i te Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center tata ki Baghdad; i whakaekehia te miihini, i kino te kino i Iran i roto i tana Operation Scorch Sword, i mahia i te tau i mua o te patu a Iharaira i waenga i te Pakanga Iran-Iraq. I te Pakanga o te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa o 1990-1991, i whakahaerehia e Iraki he pakanga rererangi ki a Iharaira mai i roto
I whakaekehia e Iraqi-Kuwait, i reira i tukuna ai e ia nga miihini Scud 42 kua whakarerekehia (i tohua ko Al-Hussein) ki nga taone nui o Iharaira me te whaainga rautaki ki te whakaoho i a Iharaira ki te whakaeke i nga whakaeke utu me te whakawehi pea i te roopu maha-motu i hangaia e te United States ki a Iraq, i tino tautokohia me te nui o nga takoha mai i etahi atu kawanatanga-maori Muslim; kaore a Iharaira i whakautu ki nga whakaeke a Iraqi mo te werohanga na te pehanga a Amerika, a kaore a Iraq i kaha ki te tautoko i tana mahi i Kuwait.