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[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by GrayMouser
Really? I thought that the Soviet Union was the main supplier of arms to Iraq all through the Iran-Iraq War.

Since most of Iran's equipment was American, it was, ironically, Israel which supported the Ayatollahs with most of their supplies, supplemented by America during the Irangate deals; after that they bought what they could get from from China and North Korea.

In fact, the USSR was seen as such a bulwark against Iran that Kuwait asked the both the Soviet and US Navies for protection from Iranian attacks on Gulf shipping.

I've never heard anyone suggest that the USSR was backing Iran- interested to hear of anything supporting that view.

Nope - USSR was backing Iran in the Iran /Iraq war. The US wanted to keep the status quo in the region - because we didn't want instability. We technically backed both - but we supported Iraq more. People can disagree with the policy in today's terms - but that that was 80's and a very different time - with a very different enemy.