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The sale of weapons to Iran, the subject of an weapons embargo in the hope that the sales would secure the release of people being held against their will.

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  • But the Iranian arms-for-hostage deal that leaked out later that year blew such claims to smithereens.
  • The behavior of Powell and Weinberger in the following days also suggested that they knew an arms-for-hostage swap was under way.
  • Reagan, however, was reeling from disclosures about the reckless arms-for-hostage scheme with Iran and diversion of money to the Nicaraguan contras.
  • In early September 1985, Weinberger dispatched a Pentagon emissary to meet with Iranians in Europe, another step that would seem to make little sense if Weinberger and Powell...
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