Gripen9
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Actually they wereF-14s. They were not customers for the F-16.
IIrAF was the first customer outside of NATO to order F-16s in 1976. They ordered 160 plus 140 option for a total of 300. A big chunk of payment was already made and has since been frozen.
The aircraft were even painted for delivery at the time of the revolution. The embargoed aircraft were then routed to Israel and may have been the same that bombed Osirak Nuclear Reactor in Iraq.








