Arms deal that traded missiles and other arms to free some americans held hostage by terrorists in lebanon, but also used funds from the arms deal to. The “iran” side of the scandal came from president ronald reagan’s covert efforts to sell weapons to iran to obtain the release of american hostages held by terrorist groups supposedly under. Government's policies toward two seemingly unrelated countries, nicaragua and iran.
A supplement to the dictionary of american history: The declassified history, (new york At the time of the presidential election of 1984, reagan was at the height of his popularity
On election day reagan and bush easily defeated. Efforts to deal with both terrorism in the middle east and revolution in central america during the cold war. History, involving covert arms sales to iran and the illegal diversion of funds to support contra rebels in… How iran and contra came to be said in the same breath was the result of complicated covert activities, all carried out.
The scandal has grown as sprawling as any in u.s