Pipe fittings are used to connect pipes. There are different varieties of pipe fittings made of various materials and available in various shapes and sizes. Pipe adapters, couplings, elbows, tees, sleeves, flanges, bulkhead fittings, reducers, valves etc. are all different types of pipe fittings.
After losing most of his territorial gains by May 1982 (when Iran recaptured Khorramshahr), Saddam Husseinâs strategic response was to proclaim a unilateral cease-fire (June 10, 1982) while ordering Iraqi forces to withdraw to the border.
Just listen to Kanaan Makiya, who today is one of the leading figures in the Iraqi democratic opposition and who â over the past decade and a half â had been one of the most fearless and perceptive critics of Saddamâs tyranny. He summed up the history of Iraq prior to Saddamâs takeover in 1968.