Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei whitianga - I te tau 1981, i whakahaerehia e Iharaira te Operation Opera i Ba'athist Iraq, i te mea i pupuhihia e te Air Force o Iharaira, i angitu te whakangaromanga o te miihini karihi o Iraqi i hangaia i te Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center tata ki Baghdad; i whakaekehia te miihini, i wharahia e 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 1990-1991 Gulf War, i whakahaerehia e Iraki he pakanga rererangi ki a Iharaira mai i roto i te Kuwait o Iraq.
, i roto i te reira i whakarewahia 42 whakarerekētia Scud missiles (tohutia Al-Hussein) i runga i pa Iharaira ki te whāinga rautaki o te whakaongaonga Iharaira ki te whakarewa i whakaeke utu, me te pea whakawehi i te coalition maha-motu i hanga e te United States ki Iraq, i nei i te tautoko tonu, me te nui takoha i ētahi atu whenua Muslim-nui; kihai i Iharaira whakautu ki te whakaeke missiles Iraqi tika ki te pēhanga American, a kihai i taea e Iraq ki te kohikohi tautoko mo tona nohoanga o Kuwait.