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The French were concerned that their support for Iraq would harm their relations with Iran, but their economic and commercial interests in Iraq were too important. The French military reinforced their naval presence in the Gulf in response to Iranian threats of deteriorating relations. France's history with Baghdad reached back decades.
The support by France was an important element to strengthen Iraq for the Iran–Iraq War.Starting in roughly 1975, [1] leading up to the Iran–Iraq War, as well as the war itself, the greatest amount of military equipment came to Iraq from the Soviet Union, but France was probably second, and generally provided higher-technology equipment than the Soviets.
The French carried to Persia the same military and administrative faculties, and established the origin of the present Persian regular army, as it is styled. When Napoleon the Great resolved to take Iran under his auspices, he dispatched several officers of superior intelligence to that country with the mission of General Gardanne in 1808.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Iran's nuclear program is nearing the "point of no return" with many seeing it as a method to build leverage against the incoming Trump administration ...
Following the independence of Iraq, France maintained formal relations with the Iraqi Kingdom, even the governments coming in result of coup.At the turn of the 1940s, the occupation of France and establishment of Vichy France during World War II forced the French government into exile, as well as another Iraqi coup lead to a pro-German regime [5] that put the two governments in conflict.
Support for Iran was divided. Following the Iranian Revolution, as many as 14,000 military commanders and officers were imprisoned, executed, purged or discharged under charges of being loyal to the deposed Shah and treason for a failed coup to topple the Islamic Republic.
Tehran also confiscated Iraqi aircraft, including French-made Mirage F1s, flown to Iran to evade destruction in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Iranian Air Force pilots flew MiG-29 fighters provided by ...
Operation Opera (Hebrew: מִבְצָע אוֹפֵּרָה), [1] also known as Operation Babylon, [2] was a surprise airstrike conducted by the Israeli Air Force on 7 June 1981, which destroyed an unfinished Iraqi nuclear reactor located 17 kilometres (11 miles; 9.2 nautical miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq.