ran Is Flying One of America's Most Powerful Fighter Jets (From the 1970s)

[DemolitionMan]

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Sebastien Roblin

With the overthrow of the shah in 1979 and the hostage crisis at the American embassy in Tehran, official Iranian-American relations were suspended and the spying program was discontinued. But relations between the Islamic revolutionary Iran and the atheist Soviet Union only worsened as the latter continued to supply weapons to Iraq, which invaded Iran in 1980.

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/iran-flying-one-americas-most-powerful-fighter-jets-the-22857