https://warisboring.com/why-iran-rea...-f-14-tomcats/
How F-14 Purchase from US Humiliated Iran?s Monarchy
https://case.hks.harvard.edu/on-the-...buys-the-f-14/
Fact: Iran's Air Force Flies American-Made F-14 Tomcats | The National Interest Blog
Have a read - some contradictory stuff
Incidentally a couple of years ago I stayed at a house in Isfahan that had originally been part of the complex for US staff at the Bell factory
This complex I guess it was:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...=.849f573a8d8b
My Iranian friend had been moved there when the US moved out - they got bombed during the iraq/Iran war - he was only 5 then & his well-connected father had him smuggled out - to India.