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The section in question, from the Arms Control Association, was paraphrased at length and meets fair use; unfortunately, the wrong version was copied from a draft that contained working notes.
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This article looks like a badly-written essay full of original research and irrelevant content. Iran-Russia relation since 1989 have nothing to do with Iran-Iraq war. USSR was a backer of Iraq, if USSR supported Iran during the Iran-Iraq war, then provide sources saying so in the context of the war, and list the nature and extent of the support DURING the war, and please keep the focus on Iran-Iraq war.-- CreazySuit ( talk) 05:06, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
I've been reading the chapter on the USSR and the Iran-Iraq War in The Iran-Iraq War: The Politics of Aggression ed. Farhang Rajaee (University of Florida Press, 1993). Judging from that, there is no evidence that the Soviet Union ever provided support to Iran during the war. According to the book, Soviet policy was divided into three periods: (a) "Strict neutrality" 1980-82; (b) "Active neutrality" 1982-86, during which they supplied arms to Iraq to counter Iranian successes; and (c) "Active containment" 1986-88, when Gorbachev, worried by the threat of an Iraqi collapse and about what would happen to Afghanistan after Soviet withdrawal, greatly increased arms supplies to Saddam. -- Folantin ( talk) 13:20, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
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This article was nominated for deletion on April 6, 2008. The result of the discussion was Keep. |
The section in question, from the Arms Control Association, was paraphrased at length and meets fair use; unfortunately, the wrong version was copied from a draft that contained working notes.
Howard C. Berkowitz ( talk) 18:12, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
This article looks like a badly-written essay full of original research and irrelevant content. Iran-Russia relation since 1989 have nothing to do with Iran-Iraq war. USSR was a backer of Iraq, if USSR supported Iran during the Iran-Iraq war, then provide sources saying so in the context of the war, and list the nature and extent of the support DURING the war, and please keep the focus on Iran-Iraq war.-- CreazySuit ( talk) 05:06, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
I've been reading the chapter on the USSR and the Iran-Iraq War in The Iran-Iraq War: The Politics of Aggression ed. Farhang Rajaee (University of Florida Press, 1993). Judging from that, there is no evidence that the Soviet Union ever provided support to Iran during the war. According to the book, Soviet policy was divided into three periods: (a) "Strict neutrality" 1980-82; (b) "Active neutrality" 1982-86, during which they supplied arms to Iraq to counter Iranian successes; and (c) "Active containment" 1986-88, when Gorbachev, worried by the threat of an Iraqi collapse and about what would happen to Afghanistan after Soviet withdrawal, greatly increased arms supplies to Saddam. -- Folantin ( talk) 13:20, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
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