Another client on Rafale this year?

Negotiations on this issue have been conducted for 3 years. It is simply a single squadron consisting of 14 aircraft of the modern F4 standard: 10 single-seat and 4 two-seater. Iraq was expected to be curious in Rafale almost from the beginning of his program, and thus even during the regulation of Saddam Hussein. In the 80s. Iraq had a large fleet of French Mirage F1EQ fighters, using, among another things, Exocet anti-ship missiles, as well as Super 530D air-to-air missiles, with which Iranian F-14 Tomcats were shot down in 1988, at the end of the Iraq-Iran war.