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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 to Iran between 1981 to 1986, facilitated by senior officials of the Ronald Reagan administration.
The planned deals were being arranged at the same time as the White House was secretly seeking to arrange arms sales to Iran (including suspending enforcement of the Arms Export Control Act in January 1986 [16]), in what became known as the Iran-Contra affair; some evidence indicated that defendants were aware of these efforts.
Cover Up: Behind the Iran-Contra Affair explores more than a few unsettling chapters in the history of U.S. covert foreign policy. The film explores a tale of politics, drugs, hostages, weapons ...
In the United States, the Reagan administration negotiated a secret arms-for-hostage swap with Iran known as the Iran–Contra affair. The end of the crisis in 1992 is thought to have been precipitated by the need for Western aid and investment by Syria and Iran following the end of the Iran–Iraq War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
about the Iran weapons operation, although in public he asserts that he was "out of the loop -- no operational role." [16] 26 November 1986: Tower Commission appointed; 19 December 1986: Lawrence Walsh is appointed Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters by the Special Division of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of ...
Mockumentary; a right-wing politician, embroiled in the Iran–Contra affair, is the apparent target of an assassination The Bourne Identity: 2002 An amnesiac CIA assassin goes on the run from his superiors, who want to cover up their illegal activities The Boys from Brazil: 1978 Nazi fugitive Josef Mengele plots to use cloning to create the ...
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.
Epix has greenlighted Fiasco, a docuseries from Leon Neyfakh based on his podcast about America’s most pivotal historical events. The six-episode series about politics, power, and uncertainty ...