Author Question: Which of the following was part of Saddam Hussein's miscalculations about Iran prior to the ... (Read 63 times)

wenmo · **on:** Sep 4, 2018

Which of the following was part of Saddam Hussein's miscalculations about Iran prior to the Iran-Iraq War?

a. That Iran would receive strong backing from the Soviet Union
b. That most states would support Iran if war broke out
c. That the Arab minority did not welcome the Iraqis as liberators
d. That a war would unite Iranians against him
e. That the war would be long and drawn out

Question 2

What norm did the United Nations High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Changes endorse in 2005?

a. A collective international responsibility to protect civilians from the effects of war and human rights abuses
b. A collective need to define terrorism and agree on a universal response
c. A need to recognize that state sovereignty cannot be violated unless human rights abuses reach the level of genocide
d. A need to revise UN human rights machinery to exclude those states that are gross violators of human rights
e. A need to remove the power to intervene on behalf of human rights from the exclusive domain of the Security Council