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During the Iran-Iraq War, the US knew that Iraq was using chemical weapons against Iran almost as soon as it started doing so.
However, not only did the Reagan administration do nothing to stop it, but it actually provided diplomatic cover for Iraq at the UN so it wouldn't be condemned after Iran complained.
Later in the war, the US even provided targeting information to Iraq, despite knowing full well that it would use them to attack Iranian troops with prohibited chemical weapons.
Iranians are not supposed to complain about that though, whereas Americans will continue to talk about the hostage crisis until the heat death of the universe.
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As you know, the '47 year war on America'=1,000 US Soldiers killed in 1983/the 2000s, & dozens of Americans killed in Israel in the Second Intifada or on 7 Oct. (Who weren't targeted because they were American.) (Giving Saddam intel/operational support and even limited arms in the Iran-Iraq War, and invading a neighboring country in 2003 while constantly threatening to invade Iran, weren't provocations on our part.)
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