Während des achtjährigen Krieges zwischen dem Iran und dem Irak setzte der damalige irakische Präsident Saddam Hussein wiederholt chemische und mikrobiologische Waffen gegen iranische Soldaten und Zivilisten ein.

Die genannten mikrobiologischen Waffen stammten aus den USA. Es waren etwa 40 Schiffsladungen (mit allem Drum und Dran, also Laborausrüstungen etc.)

Selbst auf WIKIPEDIA findet sich ein Hinweis:

In the early 1980s, five German firms supplied equipment to manufacture botulin toxin and mycotoxin to Iraq. Iraq's State Establishment for Pesticide Production (SEPP) also ordered culture media and incubators from Germany's Water Engineering Trading.[3] Strains of dual-use biological material from France also helped advance Iraq's biological warfare program. From the United States, the non-profit American Type Culture Collection and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control sold or sent biological samples to Iraq up until 1989, which Iraq claimed to need for medical research. These materials included anthrax, West Nile virus and botulism, as well as Brucella melitensis, and Clostridium perfringens. Some of these materials were used for Iraq's biological weapons research program, while others were used for vaccine development.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_biological_weapons_program

Die Anhörungen des Congress dazu:

https://irp.fas.org/congress/2002_cr/s092002.html