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Revealed: US helped Saddam as he gassed Iran

New Delhi: The United States helped Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein attack Iran with chemical weapons in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq war, it has been claimed. Ronald Regan's administration, which supported the Iraqi dictator, toppled

India TV News Desk Published : Nov 25, 2013 17:32 IST, Updated : Nov 26, 2013 6:54 IST


It has been previously reported that the United States provided tactical intelligence to Iraq at the same time that officials suspected Hussein would use chemical weapons. 



But the CIA documents, which sat almost entirely unnoticed in a trove of declassified material at the National Archives in College Park, Md., combined with exclusive interviews with former intelligence officials, reveal new details about the depth of the United States' knowledge of how and when Iraq employed the deadly agents.  



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