(MENAFN) Iran's chief of Staff of Armed Forces has likened the US withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal to the Iraqi withdrawal from the 1975 Algiers border treaty, saying US President Donald Trump could face a fate similar to that of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Speaking in an open parliament session on Wednesday, Major General Mohammad Baqeri drew a parallel between the incumbent US administration and the former Iraqi regime.
"It would be good to compare Saddam who tore apart the 1975 Algiers Agreement with today's oath-breakers (the US) and say the fate of such people will be similar to Saddam," Fars News Agency quoted him as saying.
In 1980 Iran and Iraq forces clashes were esclating the already existing tensions between the two countries, after that, Iran accused Iraq of bombing the border town; and triggered the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, one of the deadliest conflicts in the Middle East history that left near a million casualties.
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