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...
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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...
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culminated in the Iran–Contra affair. During their war against the Nicaraguan government, there were numerous examples of Contras committing human rights...
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States Senate formed committees in January 1987 to investigate the Iran–Contra affair. The committees held joint hearings and issued a joint report. The...
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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...
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Félix Rodríguez (soldier) (section Iran-Contra affair)
Guevara as well as his close ties to George H. W. Bush during the Iran–Contra affair. Rodríguez came from a family of land owners in his native Cuba. His...
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John Poindexter (category Iran–Contra affair)
April 1990 of multiple felonies as a result of his actions in the Iran–Contra affair, but his convictions were reversed on appeal in 1991. During the George...
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Manucher Ghorbanifar (category Iran–Contra affair)
Ghorbanifar was an Israeli agent. He is best known as a middleman in the Iran–Contra Affair during the Ronald Reagan presidency. He re-emerged in American politics...
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Nicaraguan Revolution (redirect from Contra War)
Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair, 1995. p. 27. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair, 1995. p. 485. Dickey...
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Robert McFarlane (American government official) (category Iran–Contra affair)
remained involved in negotiations with Iran and with Hezbollah. McFarlane was a central figure in the Iran–Contra affair, an operation in which the Reagan...
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Oliver North (category Iran–Contra affair)
War, North was a National Security Council staff member during the Iran–Contra affair, a political scandal of the late 1980s. It involved the illegal sale...
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Fawn Hall (category Iran–Contra affair)
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North who gained fame for her role in the Iran–Contra affair by helping North shred confidential documents. Born in Annandale,...
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opposed to the Sandinistas Iran–Contra affair, the Reagan administration selling weapons to Iran to fund the Contras Contra-alto clarinet Contrabass bugle...
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to Iran to fund Contra rebels in Nicaragua that were fighting to overthrow their nation's socialist government. The resulting Iran–Contra affair led...
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Caspar Weinberger (category Iran–Contra affair)
Iran–Contra affair concerned the selling of US missiles to Iran. The funds received from Iran were then channeled to guerilla rebels known as Contras...
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for various platforms. The arcade version of Contra was released a few months after the Iran–Contra affair was made public. While it is unclear whether...
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Boland Amendment (category Iran–Contra affair)
restricting overt U.S. support of the Contras, the most significant effect of the Boland Amendment was the Iran–Contra affair, during which the Reagan Administration...
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Graham E. Fuller (section Iran–Contra Affair)
wrote for the CIA was identified as instrumental in leading to the Iran–Contra affair. As of 2024, Fuller is a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals...
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Elliott Abrams (category Iran–Contra affair)
2021 and as the U.S. Special Representative for Iran from 2020 to 2021. His involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal during the Reagan administration led to...
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Arthur L. Liman (category Iran–Contra affair)
commission for the Attica Prison riot in 1971 and the investigation of the Iran-Contra Affair in 1987. Arthur Liman was born on November 5, 1932, in Far Rockaway...
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Plausible deniability (section Iran–Contra affair)
executive branch to thwart their authors' intentions, as was shown by the Iran–Contra affair. Indeed, the members of Congress are in a dilemma since when they...
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investigative journalist. He was known for his role in covering the Iran–Contra affair for the Associated Press (AP) and Newsweek, including breaking the...
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proceeds to fund Latin American anti-communists. The fallout from the Iran-Contra affair dominated Reagan's second term in office. His policies are credited...
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George W. Cave (section Iran-Contra Affair)
retired CIA operations officer and authority on Iran who later reluctantly took part in the Iran–Contra affair at the behest of CIA Director William J. Casey...
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John M. Dowd (section Iran–Contra affair)
the lower court's decision and later denied an en banc. During the Iran–Contra affair, Dowd represented Colonel Robert C. Dutton, a former Air Force officer...
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Ronald Reagan (section Iran–Contra affair)
Foreign affairs dominated Reagan's second term, including the 1986 bombing of Libya, the secret and illegal sale of arms to Iran to fund the Contras, and...
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William Barr (section Iran-Contra)
George H. W. Bush in 1992 pardoned six officials involved in the Iran–Contra affair. Barr became attorney general for the second time in 2019. During...
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Laurence Silberman (section Iran–Contra affair)
conviction of Oliver North, who had been a key figure in perpetrating the Iran–Contra affair. In his memoir, Firewall, published seven years after the case in...
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Dan K. Webb (section Iran-Contra affair)
District of Illinois and previously served as the Special Counsel in the Iran-Contra affair. As the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois...
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involvement in the Iran–Iraq War includes Portugal supplying both Iran and Iraq with arms, and playing a role in the Iran–Contra affair. From 1981 to 1986...
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