User:Hcberkowitz/Sandbox-United States support for Iran during the Iran-Iraq war
"It is now clear the United States had learned of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s plans to invade Iran a full year in advance. The U.S. Department of State had sent a CIA operative to Tehran to warn the provisional government in mid-October 1979, but the Iranian government took no action. When militants seized the U.S. Embassy on November 4, 1979 and took 66 Americans hostage, Washington brought that kind of cooperation to an abrupt halt."[1]
Motivations for Policy[edit]
Export Controls[edit]
Actions as intermediate in shipping to final destination[edit]
Country of incorporation of shell corporations used to hide shipments[edit]
Military training and advice[edit]
Command, control, communications and intelligence (C3I)[edit]
Land warfare[edit]
Tanks and other armored fighting vehicles[edit]
Includes both new equipment, and repair and ammunition to old equipment
Infantry equipment[edit]
Includes rifles, handheld rocket launchers like the RPG, useful against both tanks and buildings. Trying to decide if shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles should go here or to Air Defense.
Artillery[edit]
Includes multiple rocket launchers, medium and heavy mortars, and other weapons mounted on, or towed by, vehicles
Precision guided munitions for land warfare[edit]
Land mines[edit]
Logistics[edit]
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Air warfare[edit]
Aircraft[edit]
Weapons[edit]
Air defense[edit]
Radar and ground-controlled intercept[edit]
Antiaircraft artillery[edit]
Surface-to-air missiles[edit]
Manufacturing technology and critical materials[edit]
Missile technology[edit]
Chemical weapons[edit]
Nuclear weapons[edit]
Biological weapons[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ The 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War: A CWIHP Critical Oral History Conference, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, July 19
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