Iraqi soldiers patrol past damaged and abandoned ships in the Iranian port city of Khorramshahr
in November 1980; Saddam’s tank and infantry forces
move past Basra toward the besieged Iranian city of Ahvaz; motorcycle-mounted Iranian Revolutionary Guards armed with rocket-propelled grenades cheer enthusiastically before seeking Iraqi tanks; Iranian schoolgirls in Tehran, armed with AK-47s, are mobilized to fight as volunteer forces.(From Top: Zuheir Saade (Associated Press); Bettmann (Getty Images); Associated Press; Kaveh Kazemi (Getty))