Pakistan would have completely destroyed in 10 days, US asked Iran and China's help in war against India, the plan was...

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Going by the media reports, there was a time when the United States and Iran were allies, particularly during the 1971 war between India and Pakistan.
As reported by The Indian Express, recently declassified U.S. State Department documents indicate that on December 9, 1971, the high-level meeting chaired by then-National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger took place in Washington. At that time, India was launching heavy airstrikes against Pakistan's Karachi port, destroying West Pakistan's fuel and vital supplies, which had a significant impact on the performance of the Pakistani military.
At the meeting, CIA Director Richard Helms announced that 12 to 13 strikes had been conducted on Karachi's oil storage tanks, which destroyed 80% of Pakistan's fuel supply leaving Pakistan with fuel for only two weeks. Kissinger wanted to know if fuel could be moved from Tehran. Kissinger and U.S. government officials also talked about possible plans to move fuel from Iran, send Iranian fighter jets and pilots to Pakistan, and getting China to move troops on the Indian border as a means of threatening India militarily.
On December 8, 1971, U.S. officials met with Iran's Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and asked for his support for Pakistan. The Shah made it clear that he would not support Pakistan due to the Indo-Soviet treaty because that would lead to a direct confrontation with the Soviet Union. He had a second option, Johnson suggested by way of precluding, that Jordan could fly F-104s to Pakistan and in exchange Iran would fly its aircraft in Jordanian airspace as air cover for Jordan. But that idea also failed because of the prohibition of the U.S. law.
U.S. defense officials thought Pakistani forces in East Pakistan were totally cut off and could be completely wiped out within 10 to 15 days. The situation in West Pakistan was also extremely tenuous. Had India delayed the war, Pakistan's military and economy may have completely collapsed. To apply pressure to India, President Nixon and Henry Kissinger's first focus was to attempt to entice the Chinese to do something militarily near the Indian border. The second option was to deploy the U.S. Navy 7th Fleet to the Bay of Bengal. Nixon even noted that Chinese forces moving to the Indian border would scare Indian soldiers.