Spot on. But I can tell you that circa 1986 Saudi Arabia was very close from buying the 4000.
As the story goes, Israel lobbied American Congress very hard that the Saudis could never have more than 60 F-15s in their inventory (the Peace Sun contracts, from memory). But 60 F-15s was too little for the Saudis, and we all know how that ended - with Tornado F3 through the Al Yamahmah contracts, before the restriction was lifted in the late 80's and more F-15s were sold to the Saudis.
Well, had the restrictions not be lifted, the Saudis perfectly knew that the 4000 absolutely and totally outperformed the Tornado F3. There was never any doubts on the subject.
They really wanted Mirage 4000s at some point, but Uncle Sam decided otherwise.
And surely, there was not a single penny available in France to buy Mirage 4000 for the AdA. It was "Dassault: earn export orders, or burst" (sounds familiar ? history repeat itself with the Rafale...)
As for Iraq - late 1979 they were given a demonstration of the 4000 at Istres and were pretty stunned. Dassault test pilot Jean Marie Saget reminds how he was supposed to hit 50 000 feet and mach 1.8 that day, and ended well above 60 000 feet and Mach 2. The 4000 performance was absolutely stunning, and the F1s Dassault sold to Iraq were the most advanced fighters of the era, perhaps better than early F-16s. They even managed to ambush and kill a pair of Iranian Tomcats late in the war, circa 1987.
Iraq however needed a true Tomcat killer, and the 4000 was to be that killer.