Either @BarackObama is totally ignorant of the history of the Iraqi-Gulf Arab war on Iran (1980-88), or he is lying about what he knows. Either way, it is one appalling section of his new book, where he writes (p. 452): 'Soviets supplied Khomeini's military with arms.'
I interviewed Chuck Cogan who was chief of the Near East and South Asia Division in the CIA's Directorate of Operations from 1979 to 1984; Chuck told me many times that there was no evidence of this when I asked him about it directly.
I met Chuck many times to talk about the murder of US Ambassador Adolph Dubs (1979). It was in this context, and in the context of the Soviet entry into Afghanistan that I asked Chuck about Soviet arms to Iran. None, he said. And yet, @BarackObama has this in his book.
Wonder what @JZarif will do when he reads the book. Minister Zarif knows his history well.
Someday I am going to finish my book: The Assassination of Ambassador Adolph Dubs in Kabul and the Origins of the War on Terror. But I need a long term fellowship for that; aka, retirement.
Went back to my notebook to reread my interview with comrade Anahita, a minister in the communist government. She also told me no Soviet arms to Iran. 
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