- U.S. fed intelligence to Iraq about whereabouts of Iranian forces
- Iraq deployed mustard gas and sarin in 1988 on the back of the information
- U.S. administration supported Iraq during the eight-year conflict
- Up to 20,000 Iranian troops were killed by mustard gas and nerve agents from Iraqi forces during the war
By Rob Cooper
PUBLISHED: 09:44 EST, 26 August 2013 | UPDATED: 10:02 EST, 26 August 2013
The United States helped Saddam Hussein attack Iran with chemical weapons in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq war, it has been claimed.
Ronald Regan’s administration, who supported the Iraqi dictator topple two decades later by the Bush government, fed information to Baghdad that helped them launch strikes.
U.S. officials gave Saddam’s army details about the whereabouts of Iranian forces in 1988 knowing that he would deploy chemical weapons, Foreign Policy magazine reported.
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