Thirty-five years ago this week, Iraq invaded Iran and what has been described as the 20th Century's longest conventional war began. Both sides;One of them is "Adnan", now a journalist living overseas, who was drafted into the army in 1981 and Mehdi, who once volunteered to clear a path through a minefield by running across it. suffered terrible casualties but they had different motives for fighting and now, looking back, two soldiers see their experiences in a very different light.