Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whawhai a Iraq i tetahi pakanga roa me te utu nui ki a Iran, a he iti rawa nga moni whiwhi. I riri ia i te whai wāhi a Kuwait ki te nui o te hinu me te whakapae i te hinu mai i te mara Rumaila i raro i to raatau rohe. Iraq
I whakaekehia a Kuwait i te tau 1990, e whakamahere ana ki te whakapiki i ngā rahui me ngā moni whiwhi, me te whakakore i te nama, nā reira i puta ai te Pakanga o te Moana-a-Kiwa tuatahi.