Tank Ti-67 (Izrael T-55) in Iran OOB ?

[Marcello]

Originally Posted by EpoletovSPR

Cool !

Thanks !
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But my friend asks you to give link on the information on it.
The curious fact.

Such sale made perfect sense.
Realize, they were selling surplus and hardly "state of the art" tanks to a country which was in no condition to employ them against Israel and which was busy fighting a war with Iraq.
A the time Iraq was a far more dangerous threat than Iran, since not only it could project at least some conventional forces against Israel in the event of an other regional war but had also a very active nuclear and missile program.
So such sale gained some money to Israel and contributed to bleeding dangerous Iraq: win win.
Don't be surprised, the Middle East makes for strange bedfellows.