Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--A Senate committee investigating the Iran Contra affair could vote within three weeks on immunity for former White House aide John Poindexter, who--according to a published report--maintains he twice told the president that Iranian arms sales generated money for the Nicaraguan rebels...
...Tower commission blamed Shultz and Weinberger, the two most prominent opponents of the Iranian arms sales, for in effect closing their eyes to what was happening. The commission also scored Reagan and his aides for never bothering to consider whether their actions complied with the law; as the chief legal adviser to the President, Meese must bear blame for that. But Shultz says he will not resign, and replacing him would cause more turmoil in foreign policy. Weinberger and Meese are old friends of Reagan's from California days. Replacing lower-ranking Cabinet members unconnected to Iranscam would prove nothing...
...North's private contra-supply network was far greater than he had previously testified. Says one source close to Abrams: "There is no way Elliott can survive this." The contra-aid program will have similar problems surviving, even though it makes little sense to tie its fate to the Iranian scandal...
Meese told the board North claimed that such a diversion had first been suggested by Israeli Counterterrorist Expert Amiram Nir in January 1986. Manucher Ghorbanifar, the Iranian middleman on the arms deals, contends that in February North asked him if the Iranians would pay $10,000 per TOW missile, instead of $6,500. When Ghorbanifar said yes, North "was a changed...
...North kept National Security Adviser John Poindexter "exhaustively informed" of his actions through a computer network they code-named "Private Blank Check." The name aptly describes the license Poindexter gave his aide to carry out foreign policy through questionable initiatives in the name of the U.S. In negotiations with Iranian officials, he announced that the U.S. was tilting away from its official policy of neutrality in the Iran-Iraq war, and he fabricated fantastic stories of meetings with the President at Camp David. He wheedled support for the contras out of some half a dozen foreign governments and an assortment...