sentences:  Sarkis Soghanalian
  
  Sarkis Garabet Soghanalian (; February 6, 1929 – October 5, 2011), nicknamed Merchant of Death, was an Armenian-Lebanese international private arms dealer who gained fame for being the "Cold War's largest arms merchant" and the lead seller of firearms and weaponry to the former government of Iraq under Saddam Hussein during the 1980s.Soghanalian, then a permanent resident living in Virginia Gardens, Florida, was hired on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency to sell arms to help Iraq in the midst of the Iran–Iraq War.