IRAQ-IRAN

New Study Estimates Cost of Iraq-Iran War at $416bn at End 1985 

A new study entitled the "Economic Effects of the Iraq-Iran War", prepared by Dr. Abbas al-Nasrawi, Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont, and published in the July issue of the Beirut-based Arabic monthly al-Mustaqbal al 'Arabi, estimates the cost of the Iraq-Iran war between 1980 and end 1985 at a total of $416.2bn. The study is to be published in English in the August issue of the...