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u/volfmont · 5 pointsr/iranian

There are lots of more sources to confirm Israel's assistance to Iran during the war. But like always, you chose to be in denial.
These are dozens of other sources confirming the deals between Iran and Israel through different perspectives. You're more than welcome to red-pill yourself out of the category of "poorly informed people":

  • Mark Phythian's Arming Iraq also points out the details of how Reagan permitted Israel to sell arms to Iran, to prevent a fast Iraqi victory. This of course goes to tell the arm sells wasn't for the goodwill of Iranians, but rather to prolong Saddam's victory. Regardless, it confirms Israel's arms deal with Iran, which after 8 years 'did' result in 'goodwill' of Iranian people.


  • The book The secret war with Iran jumps into details of Israel's assistance to Iran during the war and even post war.

  • Tita Parsi's treacherous alliance goes into the details of what was bought and sold during the war, and how the treaties and sales were conducted. Don't hit me with "he's a well known anti-Iranian author, unless you have the resources to back it up.


  • The Iran-contra sources confirm the same story, in addition to bringing more evident light to the rumoured claims that "Israel supplied more than half of all of Iran's arms" (search for "Irangatc: The Israel Connection" in the document to get you straight to the paragraphs I'm addressing. If you think it's curropted and you want to read the book, buy it from here).

  • Another book, Israel's quest for acceptance in Asia also confirms this story, in addition to highlighting Khomeini himself approved the arm deal, in exchange for recognising Israel after the war. Classic IRI living up to promises (ツ).

  • A notable figure of these deals was [Marc Rich[(http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/-king-of-oil--discloses-his--secret-lives-/7657620). A Mossad agent who conducted these sales. His side of the story is also quite interestingly in detail.

  • John Bulloch's Gulf War Documentation is another source that confirms such deals; but also bring up the perspective of how Israelis not only sold arms to Iran, but also provided strong military logistical assistance, during and even after the war (during the Gulf War, for the sake of ensuring safety of Jewish communities in Abadan, and Kuwait). But there you have your kinsman bitching about how MOSSAD trained SAVAK.

  • Other sources confirm Israel not only sold weapons to Iran, but also conducted strikes on Saddam's chemical arsenal during Iran-Iraq War.

  • Even Pro-Palestinian resources confirm Israel's assistance to Iran.

    The other side of the story is just Khomeini's utter denial, which was contagious for the ones who blindly followed him. In despite of all the evidences to support Israel's assistance to Iran, you can be entitled to your opinion regardless of how true or false it is.

    PS: I have a bias against the "show sympathy towards Palestine and hate 8 million ordinary jews zionists" dogma that IRI has been trying to shove down everyone's throat. Rationally there is no point for anyone to want to back Palestinians. If they really wanted peace, they'd do more to oust Doofus Abbas for the sake of electing someone more responsive.

u/agfa12 · 1 pointr/changemyview

Sadlyat the time thanks to US pressure and obstructionism, the UN sat on its hands while Saddam gassed his own and iranian people despite repeated IRanian attemtps to raise the issue of Iraqi CW warfare at the UN. http://www.amazon.com/Arming-Iraq-Secretly-Northeastern-Transnational/dp/1555532853

Iran alone suffered 100000 chemical weapons casualties though it refused to respond in kind even when entitled to do so legally in self-defense. http://archive.is/q6pYB

Was Iran supposed to just sit there and wait to see who Saddam decides to gas next?