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The Iran–Contra affair (Persian: ماجرای ایران-کنترا; Spanish: Caso Irán-Contra), also referred to as the Iran–Contra scandal, the Iran Initiative, or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States that centered around arms trafficking facilitated by senior officials of the Ronald Reagan administration to Iran between 1981 to 1986.
3 November 1986: After a leak by Iranian Mehdi Hashemi, the Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa exposed the arrangement on 3 November 1986. [15] 4 November 1986: after the operation is exposed then Vice President George H.W. Bush writes in his diary "I'm one of the few people that know fully the details ..." about the Iran weapons operation, although ...
During Congress' initial hearings in late 1986, before the committees were constituted, North assisted in preparation of a misleading chronology of the Iran-Contra affair. Another member of the NSC presented the chronology to Congress. A jury convicted North of aiding and abetting obstruction of Congress.
The most well-known and politically damaging of the scandals since Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair came to light in 1986 when Ronald Reagan conceded that the United States had sold weapons to the Islamic Republic of Iran as part of a largely unsuccessful effort to secure the release of six U.S. citizens being held hostage in Lebanon.
Between 1981 and 1986, the US was secretly facilitating the sale of arms to Iran, in direct contradiction of Operation Staunch. Known as the Iran–Contra affair, it proved humiliating for the United States when the story first broke in November 1986 that the US itself was selling arms to Iran. [2] [3]
Oliver North, the retired U.S. Marine who was at the center of the Reagan-era Iran-Contra scandal, will become the president of the National Rifle Association, the powerful gun rights group ...
Actress Elizabeth Montgomery, who died in 1995, was no stranger to controversy. After portraying beloved twitch-witch Samantha Stephens on Bewitched, TV's long-running supernatural sitcom (ABC ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 January 2025. American investigative journalist (1955–2004) For other people named Gary Webb, see Gary Webb (disambiguation). Gary Webb Born Gary Stephen Webb August 31, 1955 Corona, California, U.S. Died December 10, 2004 (2004-12-10) (aged 49) Carmichael, California, U.S. Cause of death Suicide ...