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Good evening from Baghdad. One of the world's oldest cities has become one of the world's newest power centers.

As soon as major hostilities broke out between the two oil producers Iraq and Iran, we came here to Baghdad to watch OPEC at war.

To look in particular at a regime seeking supremacy in the Gulf and at its remarkable president, Saddam Hussein, one of the least known

but most effective rulers in the Middle East. As the conflict between his country

and Iran got underway earlier this year. It was Saddam Hussein who declared,

whoever climbs over our fence, we shall climb over his roof. proof. to another war

cast, I'm Joe, I'm Joe, I'm Nick.

And Nick is over there making quiet chewing noises

into the mic.

We're doing sound checks.

And I'm pretty sure this counts as another war crime in the

Iran-Iraq war. No? But anyway, we're on Iran-Iraq part three now. So if you

haven't caught part two or one go back in time I would I definitely would yeah there's some

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