Three Decades on, Iraq-Iran War Memories Linger

Three decades following the end of the Iraqi-Iranian war, residents of some border areas still recall its memories on daily basis. “This is one of the lines that still stands from the war,” one Mandali resident said as he pointed to a “sand wall” built by Iraqi forces during the war to prevent their soldiers and vehicles from being hit by Iranian missiles while crossing the area. “The city still holds painful memories from the 1980’s war,” Qassem Abu Malak, 40, told Asharq Al-Awsat. The sand wall traverses hundreds of kilometers near the border with Iran, and it passes the Waset and D

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