"Are you referring to our purchase of oil, or something else? I didn't see any reference that we provided technical assistance. ((or Loral)"
Purchase of oil is part of it. We're cashing up these animals. As to training... our Universities are filled with foreign nationals, who generally get grants my kids can't get. When I was in training in the Navy, back in 1977, our training schools were filled with Iranians.
I suspect that very few of them, if they were in Iran at the time, survived the revolution.