[okie01]

"He might point out that the US also provided arms and military intelligence to Iran as well."

And why do you suppose the US did that?

[secretagent]

I don't know why the US gave arms and military intelligence to both sides of the Iran-Iraq war.

If the US just gave support to one bad guy to restrain the other, greater, bad guy, I could see some sense in it. But I don't understand giving support to both bad guys.