The UN trade embargo would be the biggest reason. The reason for not being self reliant is pretty simply a lack of resources. Iron is hard to come by in the middle east which does not produce much besides farmland and oil. Where is iron abundant? The USSR. Iraq had a similar problem to Japan and this is the reason why most Middle Eastern armies are made up of equipment that's bought from somewhere else.
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