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Originally Posted by M4Guru
I found a shit-ton of old USGI 1911's in Iraq, in beautiful shape. A lot of 1919 .30 cals and a few M1 Garands, also. Point is, there are a lot of .45s to be had, apparently left over from what we gave them to fight Iran with was what I was told. I dunno. We never found too much ammo, but I guess there are other methods for that. I had a 1937 Remington Rand that was a keeper for sure...but it was put in the demo pile with all the other gems and blasted when we left... 
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Those might have been captured from Iran. Iranis had western base/US weapons the Iraqis were part of the Soviet base.
Though the West delcared a neutral stance between Iraq and Iran weapons was suppplied to Iran, when Iraqi forces were making serious headway in to Iran. By 1985 Iran was able to reverse the gains the Iraqis made. The west made a offer to Iran and the Irani pretty much told what the west what to do with the offer. After that all western support ended. The war dragged on for another 3 years. The support was based on not allowing the Soviets to extend it's influence to enclude Iran.