<P> United States support for Ba'athist Iraq during the Iran -- Iraq War , against post-revolutionary Iran , included several billion dollars ' worth of economic aid , the sale of dual - use technology , non-U.S. origin weaponry , military intelligence , and special operations training . At no point , however , did the U.S. directly supply arms to Iraq . Of particular interest for contemporary Iran -- United States relations are the repeated accusations that the U.S. government actively encouraged Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to invade Iran ( proponents of this theory frequently describe the U.S. as having given Saddam a `` green light '' ) , supported by a considerable amount of circumstantial evidence , but the U.S. government officially denies that any such collusion occurred , and no conclusive proof of it has been found by scholars that have studied the issue . </P>
<P> United States support for Ba'athist Iraq during the Iran -- Iraq War , against post-revolutionary Iran , included several billion dollars ' worth of economic aid , the sale of dual - use technology , non-U.S. origin weaponry , military intelligence , and special operations training . At no point , however , did the U.S. directly supply arms to Iraq . Of particular interest for contemporary Iran -- United States relations are the repeated accusations that the U.S. government actively encouraged Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to invade Iran ( proponents of this theory frequently describe the U.S. as having given Saddam a `` green light '' ) , supported by a considerable amount of circumstantial evidence , but the U.S. government officially denies that any such collusion occurred , and no conclusive proof of it has been found by scholars that have studied the issue . </P>
who did the us support in the iraq iran war
who did the us support in the iraq iran war
Iraq
Iraq