Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-34524635-20180301074103/@comment-2236231-20180306210219

That depends on when the nuclear event took place but assuming it's after Iran is influenced by Western Society and in response to social changes the Islamic Revolution takes place that the Iran-Iraq war will still happen as the Islamic Revolution attempts to spread it's self into neighboring lands.

However the Iran-Iraq war is carried out without US assistance of Iraq.

Saddam Hussain had publically voiced that peace was in the best interest of the two nations but privately had voiced his intention to invade Iran and topic it's Islamic government. Without the UN (as this coversation was between him and the Iraq Ambassador to the UN) the world doesn't know this.

Iraq would still invade Iran and like in OTL not recieve support from the USSR; but unlike OTL wouldn't get it from the US either instead having to rely on arab states who supported him. Without knowledge of what actions where done under foriegn influence it's difficult to say how the war would have turned out- Saddam did recieve support from various arab states along with China (for Athiest reasons as China feared religious radicalism in the middle east) and France (which apparently saw Saddam as defender of the civilized World in the Middle East). So you'd have to find out what battles where turned by such support. It's rather challenging.