Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contributions North helped raise from private donors reached the Nicaraguan rebels. Contrary to reports last December, none of the solicited money was funneled to campaigns against anti- contra members of Congress. While leaders of the Nicaraguan rebel forces claim they never received any of the proceeds from the Iranian arms sales, investigators think a substantial amount of the earnings did indeed drop into contra coffers...
...simply feels he did nothing wrong -- and certainly broke no laws -- in helping arrange secret arms sales to Iran and permitting Oliver North's gunrunning operations to the contras. "He had authority, direct or indirect, for everything he did," says a onetime adviser. Even on the diversion of Iranian funds to the contras, friends say, Poindexter believes that he was following Ronald Reagan's policies and that he kept the President adequately informed. Indeed, he is likely to testify that on at least two occasions in 1986, he told Reagan in general terms that the contras were being helped...
...know that our fellow Alann Steen is dying." The speaker on the videotape was Jesse Turner, one of four Beirut University instructors taken hostage in January by a pro-Iranian Shi'ite faction known as the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine. He was referring to a communique from the group earlier last week announcing that Steen, another of the four, was gravely ill. A doctor who had examined Steen, said Turner, reported that he was suffering a "crisis in his blood pressure," with symptoms that included headaches and difficulty in breathing. The original message warned that the captive...
Meanwhile, French authorities announced the arrests in Paris of eight suspected terrorists, at least some of them with close ties to pro-Iranian extremist groups in Lebanon, on weapons and conspiracy charges. Besides guns and ammunition, twelve quarts of the liquid explosive methyl nitrate were found, leading officials to believe the suspected terrorists were planning a bombing campaign similar to the one that rocked Paris last fall. Police described all of the suspects as devout Shi'ite Muslims, and six of them carried expired Tunisian passports...
...Tunisia abruptly broke off diplomatic relations with Iran. The announcement did not specifically mention the Paris incident, but it accused Iran of "recruitment of certain elements among our people abroad to execute acts prohibited by international law." In fact relations between the two countries were already frayed. Irked by Iranian charges that the former French protectorate remains too westernized, Tunis closed down its Tehran embassy six years...