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What's this?

Oh, I am by no means an expert on it

But,

Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo.

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 achieve the release of the hostages.[4][5] Large modifications to the plan were devised by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North of the National Security Council in late 1985, in which a portion of the proceeds from the weapon sales was diverted to fund anti-Sandinista rebel fighters, known as Contras, against the socialist government of Nicaragua.

So, seems like Oliver North was heavily involved in this scheme to skirt Iranian sanctions.

What am I missing here?

(In response to this post by hoothat)

Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair

Posted: 07/29/2018 at 12:55PM

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