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Coding changes: End day changed from Missing.
MID#4292
Dispute Number: 4292
Date(s): June 9, 1999 to June 10, 1999
Participants: 630 Iran/645 Iraq
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: Iranian operatives exploded a bus in Baghdad. The explosion killed
six members of an Iranian opposition group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization
(MKO), and one Iraqi civilian. A hospital and another bus were damaged in the blast.
Iran then attacked an MKO camp north of Baghdad by launching three Scud missiles.
Coding changes: Start Date changed from June 10, 1999.
MID#4510
Dispute Number: 4510
Date(s): August 22, 2002 to March 22, 2003
Participants: 630 Iran/645 Iraq
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: Both Iran and Iraq fortified their mutual border on several occasions prior
to the American intervention in Iraq.
MID#4514
Dispute Number: 4514
Date(s): April 10, 2003 to April 12, 2003
Participants: 630 Iran/645 Iraq
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: 1–25 deaths
Narrative: Iranian soldiers crossed into Iraq and attacked an opposition group based
there.
MID#4523
Dispute Number: 4523
Date(s): June 15, 2004 to January 6, 2005
Participants: 630 Iran/645 Iraq
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: Iran deployed four battalions to the border with Iraq in June 2004 in antici-
pation of an American withdrawal of forces. Iraq responded in August with deploy-
ments of their own. Iraq then seized two Iranian border guards in January 2005 but
released them after Iran’s protest.