Iran–Iraq War

Quality:

Iran–Iraq War - 1980-1988 war between Iran and Iraq. This event is the 75^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 61^st most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Iran–Iraq War” in Simple English Wikipedia has 67.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 36 references and 11 sections.

This article has the best quality in Russian Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3073^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2700^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 61^st most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2935^th most popular in all topics.

The 1139^th most popular in AI.

The 75^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 492^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 134^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 372^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Iran–Iraq War”, its content was written by 49 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2700^th place) and edited by 6095 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1139^th place).

Iran–Iraq War is on the 61^st place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 75^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 146 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 23771 times in all languages (6908^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #106 in October 2015
• Global: #359 in September 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #117 in January 2020
• Global: #134 in June 2025

There are 50 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Russian (ru) Ирано-иракская война		100
2	Portuguese (pt) Guerra Irã-Iraque		100
3	German (de) Erster Golfkrieg		95
4	Chinese (zh) 两伊战争		93.7505
5	English (en) Iran–Iraq War		90
6	Arabic (ar) حرب الخليج الأولى		88.0514
7	Persian (fa) جنگ ایران و عراق		85
8	Vietnamese (vi) Chiến tranh Iran – Iraq		84.8888
9	Croatian (hr) Iransko-irački rat		84.6061
10	Catalan (ca) Guerra Iran-Iraq		81.4091

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Iran–Iraq War		19 150 777
2	Persian (fa) جنگ ایران و عراق		8 904 916
3	Arabic (ar) حرب الخليج الأولى		3 561 897
4	German (de) Erster Golfkrieg		3 436 590
5	Russian (ru) Ирано-иракская война		2 635 584
6	Spanish (es) Guerra Irán-Irak		2 501 811
7	Japanese (ja) イラン・イラク戦争		2 343 619
8	French (fr) Guerre Iran-Irak		1 963 195
9	Turkish (tr) Irak-İran Savaşı		1 231 186
10	Chinese (zh) 两伊战争		1 147 820

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Iran–Iraq War		503 042
2	Persian (fa) جنگ ایران و عراق		79 753
3	Russian (ru) Ирано-иракская война		71 906
4	Japanese (ja) イラン・イラク戦争		62 335
5	Arabic (ar) حرب الخليج الأولى		56 803
6	German (de) Erster Golfkrieg		54 210
7	French (fr) Guerre Iran-Irak		50 308
8	Spanish (es) Guerra Irán-Irak		49 994
9	Chinese (zh) 两伊战争		39 590
10	Italian (it) Guerra Iran-Iraq		38 019

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Iran–Iraq War		2 005
2	Persian (fa) جنگ ایران و عراق		439
3	German (de) Erster Golfkrieg		430
4	French (fr) Guerre Iran-Irak		295
5	Arabic (ar) حرب الخليج الأولى		259
6	Russian (ru) Ирано-иракская война		204
7	Italian (it) Guerra Iran-Iraq		181
8	Spanish (es) Guerra Irán-Irak		175
9	Dutch (nl) Irak-Iranoorlog		170
10	Japanese (ja) イラン・イラク戦争		162

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Iran–Iraq War		35
2	German (de) Erster Golfkrieg		11
3	Arabic (ar) حرب الخليج الأولى		8
4	Persian (fa) جنگ ایران و عراق		5
5	Russian (ru) Ирано-иракская война		5
6	Spanish (es) Guerra Irán-Irak		4
7	Catalan (ca) Guerra Iran-Iraq		3
8	French (fr) Guerre Iran-Irak		3
9	Italian (it) Guerra Iran-Iraq		3
10	Hebrew (he) מלחמת איראן–עיראק		2

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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