The other factor is that the typical member of the Iranian military knows the actual state of things which when it comes to advanced techonolgy is not that good. Currently they are using 40+ year old F-4Es against ISIL positions in border regions. Now to some extent that shows that they have very success fully managed to keep their fleet going despite the embargo. I do suspect that they likely did receive some spares from Israeli stocks back in the 80's for pulling the recon missions on the Iraqi nuclear reactor which the IDAF attacked. Intel which the CIA refused to share but the Iranians happily shared and even pulled the RF-4E recon for in fact they'd tried at least one strike mission themselves without success. Surely they got something in return even if tellings have changed 30 years hense.
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