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."

Tanks and other armored fighting vehicles
Includes both new equipment, and repair and ammunition to old equipment

Infantry equipment
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
Includes multiple rocket launchers, medium and heavy mortars, and other weapons mounted on, or towed by, vehicles