Likewise, following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the US armed Saddam Hussein’s Iraq to go to war with Iran, resulting in hundreds of thousands of Iranian deaths in the 1980s. And US-led international sanctions, imposed from the 1990s onward, have aimed to impoverish, destabilize, and ultimately topple the Islamist regime.
类似地，1979年伊朗革命后，美国武装了萨达姆·侯赛因的伊拉克，让其与伊朗开战，造成20世纪80年代数十万伊朗人死亡。而从20世纪90年代开始实行的美国领衔的国际制裁的目的就是让伊斯兰政权变穷、动摇、最终推翻它。