[ARandomerDude]

Then a decade later the US gave Khomeini F-14s, which were the king of air dominance fighters at the time.

I’m not even suggesting this was good foreign policy, just that none of the above history proves the thesis that we set them back a few hundred years.

[DiogenesKynikos]

Iran's F-14s come from the Shah era, though the Reagan administration did secretly sell Iran spare parts during the 1980s, as part of a scheme to fund fascist militias in Central America without having to ask Congress for the money.