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The Lion of Babylon or Asad Babil (Arabic: اسد بابل) was an Iraqi-built derivative of the Soviet T-72 main battle tank assembled during the 1980s at a factory near Taji Iraq north of the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad.This project represented the most ambitious attempt by Saddam Hussein’s regime to develop an indigenous tank triggered in part when some Western governments imposed an embargo in order to force a negotiated end to the Iran-Iraq war.
