1975 Algiers Agreement

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1975 Algiers Agreement

Left-to-right: Iranian monarch Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Algerian president Houari Boumédiène Iraqi vice president Saddam Hussein
Signed	6 March 1975
Location	Algiers, Algeria
Mediators	Algeria
Signatories	Iran Iraq
Languages	Arabic and Persian

The 1975 Algiers Agreement, also known as the Algiers Accord and the Algiers Declaration, was signed between Iran and Iraq to settle any outstanding territorial disputes along the Iran–Iraq border. Mediated by Algeria, it served as the basis for additional bilateral treaties signed on 13 June 1975 and 26 December 1975. The territorial disputes in question concerned Iraq's Shatt al-Arab and Iran's Khuzestan Province, and Iraq had wished to negotiate to end Iran's support for the then-ongoing Iraqi Kurdish rebellion after suffering a military defeat in the 1974–1975 Shatt al-Arab conflict. On 17 September 1980, shortly after the Iranian Revolution, the Iraqi government abrogated the treaty in light of another series of cross-border clashes between the two countries. On 22 September 1980, the treaty was completely voided with the Iraqi invasion of Iran, which triggered the eight-year-long Iran–Iraq War.

Today, friction continues on the two countries' border despite the treaty remaining binding under international law (per UNSC Resolution 619), and the detailed boundary delimitation^[1] is still de jure in force since it was signed in 1975 and ratified in 1976 by both Iran and Iraq.