Selects: Iran-Contra Affair: Shady in the 80s, Part 2
The Iran-Contra affair was a clandestine Reagan administration operation in the 1980s that secretly sold arms to Iran—despite an embargo and ongoing hostage crisis—while using the proceeds to illegally fund the Contras in Nicaragua, in direct violation of congressional bans. The scandal u
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