Stronger Than a Bullet

Also known as The Iran-Iraq War: The Camera as a Weapon, Starkare än en kula, The Confiscated Images, Irán-Irak: la guerra de la imagen, Iran-Irak: Die Kamera als Waffe

Iran, January 16th, 1979. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees after being overthrown. Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Tehran and proclaims the Islamic Republic on April 1st, 1979. In the same year, Saddam Hussein seizes power in Iraq and, after several border skirmishes, attacks Iran on September 22nd, 1980, initiating a cruel war that will last eight years. Since its outbreak, correspondent Saeid Sadeghi documented it from its beginning to its bitter end.