Nation of Iran Celebrates 33 years of Independence and Self-Determination

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49. We've been seeking that revenge for decades now

It's a big part of the current demonization of the Iranian people that you and the others on this thread are participating in. Pat yourself on the back, you're carrying on a tradition!

At any rate. After the Iranian revolution we renewed diplomatic relations with Iraq, after 12 years of frozen relations. Saddam allowed the CIA to open an office in Baghdad. Hussein got an implicit US green light to attack Iran through CIA channels. The Carter administration threatned military assistance to Iraq if Iran did not release the embassy hostages. We rewarded Iraq with normalized relations, removed Iraq from the list of state sponsors of terrorism in order to sell dual-use technology to Iraq, and channeled weapons sales to Iraq through third parties; again directed by the CIA. Yes these weapons were of non-US manufacture, but it was the CIA director William J Casey that approved and directed getting these weapons into Iraq. We delivered tactical advisors to Iraq, and by 1987 we were actually providing day-to-day plans for Iraqi bombers. We gave training for Iraqi soldiers at Fort Bragg. We circumvented a UN embargo on materiel shipments to either warring party through the Bear Spares program, funneling replacement equipment and parts to the Iraqi army on the US Taxpayer dollar. We very certainly did sell biological and chemical weapons to Iraq, including but not limited to at least seventy shipments of weaponized anthrax. What's more, we blocked a UN resolution condemning the use of these weapons against the Iranian people, thereby signalling our SUPPORT for the use of chemical and biological weapons against the people of Iran.

Further, Iran did not start the "tanker war" - That began when Iraq launched attacks against tankers at Kharg Island. I suppose you believe that the war was started by Iran as well, since they're the "bad guy" according to the Reagan narrative you're regurgitating here.

Yes, one of us is very uninformed about the situation.