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2023-06-05 20:48:23 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 5F3FEEEA4B65ED345DAE872C369EBD16D567DEAC24EF4BC2780EA275F1673238
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In WW2 (1939-45), the US increased military, diplomatic and commercial involvement in the Middle East to counter Axis, and later Soviet, power. This US provided weapons used in the ME to Britain, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia & Iraq. The US also helped occupy Iran. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease#:~:text=Value%20of%20materials,of%0AUS%20Dollars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease_Sherman_tanks#:~:text=North%20Africa%5B,Churchill%20tanks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_El_Alamein_order_of_battle#cite_ref-22:~:text=35%20Sherman%2C%2037,Crusader%20%3D%20140%20tanks https://www.jstor.org/stable/24910224 https://www.rferl.org/a/1058759.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Soviet_invasion_of_Iran#:~:text=In%201943%2C%2030%2C000,the%20Tehran%20Conference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia%E2%80%93United_States_relations#:~:text=However%2C%20as%20World,Dhahran%20in%201944 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East#:~:text=a%20geopolitical%20region%20encompassing%20the%20Arabian%20Peninsula%2C%20the%20Levant%2C%20Turkey%2C%20Egypt%2C%20Iran%2C%20Syria%20and%20Iraq
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