How Israel and Iran Teamed up to Crush Iraq's Nuclear Bomb Program
by Sebastien Roblin
Now, the famous Israeli Operation Opera that destroyed the Osirak reactor was still nine months away.
At dawn on September 30, 1980 four American-made F-4E Phantom jets screamed low over central Iraq, each laden with air-to-air missiles and three thousand pounds of bombs.
Prior to entering Iraqi airspace they had rendezvoused for aerial refueling with a Boeing 707 tanker escorted by two more advanced F-14 Tomcat fighters—the type immortalized six years later in the film Top Gun. And to complete the eighties action-movie vibe, they were embarked on a mission codenamed ‘Operation Scorched Sword.’
Read more at: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-israel-and-iran-teamed-crush-iraqs-nuclear-bomb-program-71051
The article makes clear that even after the Shah was out of office and the Mullahs ruled, Israel still gave some support to Iran because they had a common enemy in Sadam.
