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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.
The Iran–Contra affair was a political scandal in the United States that came to light in November 1986. During the Reagan administration, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo. [1]
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.
Iran-Contra. Whitewater. ... in 1999 after high-profile and expensive inquiries during the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations into the Iran-Contra affair and during the Clinton ...
The most significant effect of the Boland Amendment was the Iran–Contra affair, during which the Reagan Administration circumvented the Amendment in order to continue supplying arms to the Contras. [3] This was achieved by funneling money to the Contras that was generated by secret arms sales to Iran.
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 ...
The square-jawed lieutenant colonel was a ubiquitous face during the Reagan era.
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.