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IRANGATE - The IranContra affair (Persian: -, Spanish: caso Irán-Contra), also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the IranContra scandal, was a political ...
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The IranContra affair (Persian: -, Spanish: caso Irán-Contra), also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the IranContra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo. They hoped, thereby, to fund the Contras in Nicaragua while at the same time negotiating the release of several U.S. hostages. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress. * The scandal began as an operation to free seven American hostages being held in Lebanon by Hezbollah, a paramilitary group with Iranian ties connected to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. It was planned that Israel would ship weapons to Iran, and then the United States would resupply Israel and receive the Israeli payment. The Iranian recipients promised to do everything in their power to a |