McGrath, please name some close allies of the USA with a human rights record as bad as Iran.

Why name just one of the many countries supporting Iraq in that war?

notably including the murderous war against Iran launched by Saddam Hussein with the encouragement and support of the then communist USSR government.

As true as the sentence you actually have posted, McGrath, but we do not expect to read such a sentence from you.

notably including the murderous war against Iran launched by Saddam Hussein in which the USA supplied Iran with weapons.

Also true, but we wouldn't expect you to post such a sentence in the present political situation. The USA, though they openly had declared neutrality, saw that Iran could buy new US weapons by their close ally, Israel, who had openly sided with Iran then.

When it is known, that the USA and several other countries) during that war supplied both parties with weapons, just to mention the supply from the USA to Iraq