To what extent were the Iran Iraq conflict and the Iraq Kuwait conflict fought over oil resources? To what extent were they religious?

The conflict between Iran and Iraq was largely based on religion.  It occurred from roughly 1980 until 1990 when the UN stepped in to solve the issue. Iran had just had and was going through the Shiite Islam revolution.  Iraq under the leadership of Saddam
Hussein feared that the revolution would spread to Iraq especially considering
that there were many people in Iraq who were Shiite Islam.  This war was therefore mainly a religious war although the two countries did also claim to have territory within the others boundaries.  In August 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait.  It was the first Persian Gulf War.  This was a territorial and resource based attack.  30 countries,
including some Arab countries, formed a coalition against Iraq.  The U.S.A. was quite involved with this event yet all of their actions were carefully planned, such as making sure Israel did not get involved, so that they would not lose the Arab support.  After 4 days Kuwait was liberated.  There had been about 90,000 Iraqi casualties.  The Iran Iraq war was
largely influenced by religion and the first Persian Gulf War was largely for
resources and economics along with pride for Iraq.

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