Indeed, oil was the primary cause behind the invasion, leading to US military participation. "The primary US interest in the stability of the Persian Gulf is oil," Paul Wolfowitz, the George H. W. Bush administration's assistant secretary of defense for policy, informed Defense Secretary Cheney.
<h3>What led to the Persian Gulf War?</h3>
The Persian Gulf War, often known as Operation Desert Storm or the First Gulf War, began in 1991, after President Saddam Hussein of Iraq's command in early August 1990 to invade and occupy neighboring Kuwait.
The Iran-Iraq War arose from a long history of territorial boundary disputes between the two countries, as a consequence of which Iraq intended to regain the eastern bank of the Shatt al-Arab, which it had given to Iran in the 1975 Algiers Agreement.
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