The US government apparently continues to prepare for war against Iran. A second aircraft carrier is on its way to the Persian Gulf. The options, how to destroy the Iranian alleged nuclear facilities, are being considered. Israel is pressurising the US for a speedy attack.

The major question, "what happens afterwards", just like in the Iraq war, is not even being considered. This may be another serious mistake as the quagmire in Iraq has proved.

Iran has had weapons of mass destruction for 13 years now, thanks to Israel, Germany and the UK.

These countries supplied Iran from 1991 to 1993 with raw materials and "know-how" for the production of nerve gases Sarin and Mustard, which were bought in China and shipped to Iran's Bandar e Abbas.
Sarin is one of the worst weapons of mass destruction. It was invented by Adolf Hitler's chemical industry in 1937, however it was never used in World War Two.
It was, however, used in a horrific terrorist attack in the subway of Tokyo in 1995. These weapons of mass destruction can easily be filled into medium range rockets. If Iran is attacked it may be left with no option but to fire such rockets into Israel.

The Iranians may be tempted to use the chemical weaponry at their disposal. It is not farfetched to imagine Israel retaliating by dropping atomic bombs over Iran. The events would lead to a whole Middle East-wide war. Iran's military capability has been assisted by the West's support. This was when Iran was seen as an ally albeit a short-term one of the West.

Israel supplied Iran with weapons for decades, most prominently during the Iran-Contra scandal in 1986, in which the Pentagon with its colonel Oliver North and in cohort with the international arms dealer Khashoggi, was selling weapons to Iran via Israel and the profits were used to sponsor a right wing terror group, the Contras, fighting the government of Nicaragua.

Even before, more so after this scandal, the weapons supply from Israel to Iran was in full swing during the Iran-Iraq war. Israel and the West preferred a victory by Iran. After the Iran-Iraq war was over, and after Iraq was later on defeated in the first Gulf war in 1991, Israel started to supply one of its arch-enemies not only with regular arms, but with weapons of mass destruction, raw materials and "know-how" for the production of the nerve gases Sarin and mustard.

Involved on the Iranian side was a Dr Majid Abbaspour Tehrani Fard, Head of Department 105 (Iran defence industry) and a close friend of former Iranian President Rafsanjani. Equally involved was Hossein Maher.
The buyers had a subsidiary in Vienna, run by an Iranian man by the name of Farschi. Farschi had a number of names; Farshchiha, Hashemi Bari, and was sometimes called Masoud.

An Austrian engineer, Manfred Felber, who was married to an Iranian woman, assisted him. Felber sometimes lived in Tehran, the Iranian capital. In 1994 Felber was sentenced to four years in prison by an American court for money-laundering and illegally buying gas masks and a gas detector in the US.
Farschi was running the import/export company Bandaran. Bandaran, an Iranian company with its head office in Tehran, was selling surplus oil that exceeded Iran's OPEC quota, on the black market at a discount. The proceeds were being used to buy weapons, including weapons of mass destruction.

The two groups were buying the raw material in China and selling it to Iran. They were working independently from each other. One group comprised the Israeli arms dealer Nahum Manbar, a big supporter of Israel's Labour Party. At functions he was regularly seated at the top table next to Israel's former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. Manbar sold, amongst other things, T75 tanks from the former Eastern Bloc countries to Iran. The tanks were modernised with Israeli electronic systems.

In 1991, he started to supply Iran with weapons of mass destruction in conjunction with the Israeli secret service Shin Bet and in cohort with the British Mi6. The British Mi6 was represented by the agents Joy Kiddie and Richard Tomlinson.

The second group comprised the former Israeli air force colonel Moshe Regev alias Regenstreich and the German Gerhard Eugen Merz. Their company Mainway was operating from the town of Bad Homburg, 15km north of Frankfurt.
Apparently the German Secret service Bundesnachrichtendienst was aware of these dealings, possibly involved as well. While chemical weapons were being supplied to Iran by the West, the West had weapons inspectors in Iraq apparently searching for WMD.

The government of Israel ordered a stop to the Iran dealings when weapons, once sold to Iran, were handed over to Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon by the Iranians.
Regev/Merz stopped immediately, Manbar continued for another year to honour the contract with Iran. He was apparently afraid, of what might happen, if he did not follow the contract to its final conclusion. Apparently because of not obeying these new stipulations by the Isreali government, only Manbar and not Regev was arrested in 1997 during a visit to Israel. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison after a scandal-riddled trial. The presiding judge Ammon Shtrasnov, started a love affair with one of Manbar's defence lawyers, Pninat Yanai. Despite this, Shtrasnov did not recuse himself from the further proceedings.

The question remains as to why Israel supported the sale of weapons of mass destruction to Iran. Perhaps one could wonder, was it not to just create a pretext for waging a war against Iran?