Of course, the US will run in little circles while Iran rains death on them. Probably our lack of any experience in war or our inferior equipment. Oh, and Iran is exactly like Iraq...they fought for 8 years and both acheived roughly equal results. And Iraq was far stronger at they end than at the beggining
Your Iran Iraq comparison is wrong Juice. Iraq had the support of the Arab league (excluding Syria and Libya, and sometimes Algeria and Lebanon), that would alone mean more than 45 countries. It also had the support of the Soviet Union and the USA, in fact he had the support of both blocs of power at that time while Iran had none. Iran had been left alone and both the Soviet Union and the western bloc had turned against us. We captured Arabs from over 20 nationalities during the Iraq-Iran war who had been sent to Iraq to help them fight Iran.
Moreover, after the Nozheh coup, the newly-established regime of Iran started 'cleaning' all pro-Shah elements in the Army. Many of our generals had been executed or had been jailed or had escaped the country. Our air force officers were in jail. The Iranian army had been dismantled and suppressed because the new regime didn't trust it and thought they would coordinate a coup.
But that's not all the story. Our air force started to get crippled as the American and European expats and counselors had left Iran. We couldn't receive pieces for our air force, navy or ground forces. But even with that situation, we fought for 8 years.
Add this thing to the list as well: After the revolution, the Soviet Union and the western bloc started to instigate separatism in Iran to weaken the newly-established regime. So not only we were fighting with Iraq, but also we had been forced to fight separatist in border areas who had revolted against the country.
The Iraq-Iran war is unique of its kind for many reasons. And also the traces of the western and eastern support for Iraq is very clear. Did you know that France rented Mirage fighters to Iraq? Do you remember of any similar case before that a country rents its fighters to another country? We attacked the Osirak reactor and it sustained damage, the French promised to rebuild it quickly with the Saudi money. Did you know that the amount of chemical weapons used by Iraq against Iran in the war could only be compared with World War I? Did you know that after Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Sardasht is the third victim of the WMD's in the world?
If it weren't for the international support for Iraq, even the dismantled Iranian army could outclass Iraq in 3 years. In fact the question should be asked in the opposite way. With all the international support, and with the agreement between the USA and SU against Iran, over 70 countries of the world, including world super powers and oil rich Arabs, couldn't do a jack to Iran all together. The USA itself directly declared war on Iran during the tanker wars by attacking Iranian oil rigs and Iranian navy while we were fighting Iraq. So the question must be asked this way: The USA and Europe and the soviet union, all together, fighting Iran through the proxy Iraq, failed to defeat Iran. Now they want to go into war with Iran directly when there's no Saddam any more and Russia and China are in Iran's side? LOL.
The majority of Iraq's military was Soviet equipped.
Oh yea, unless you consider Mirage F1, exocet, HOT antitank missiles, AS30, super falcon and others as soviet equipments.
