In 1988, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini "drank the cup of poison" and agreed to a U.N.-mediated ceasefire with Saddam Hussein to end the devastating Iran-Iraq war.
For Iran's leader, whose country suffered nearly a million deaths at the hands of the enemy, with countless more wounded, t
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