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 two decades later by the Bush government, fed information to Baghdad that helped them launch strikes.
A generation ago, America's military and intelligence communities knew about and did nothing to stop a series of nerve gas attacks far more devastating than anything Syria has seen.
Iraq used mustard gas and sarin in early 1988 in four major offensives which helped bring about the end of the eight-year conflict.
During the whole war, up to 20,000 Iranian troops were killed by mustard gas and nerve agents from Iraq and 100,000 were wounded.
But they were also the last in a series of chemical strikes stretching back several years that the Reagan administration knew about and didn't disclose.
