Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...known about the sales, McFarlane says, he would have changed his opinion about the U.S. approach to Iran. The Administration proceeded with the Iran initiative despite warnings from Secretary of State George Shultz that using Israel as an intermediary "could seriously skew our own perception and analysis of the Iranian scene...
...Lieut. Colonel Oliver North deliberately bypassed the State Department when he distributed special intelligence reports on Iran to selected Government officials in September 1985. A few months later, however, North provided intelligence reports on the Middle East to Manucher Ghorbanifar, the Iranian merchant who was the middleman for negotiations between the U.S. and the Islamic nation...
...report called into question Reagan's oft-repeated defense that the weapons transactions were meant to foster ties with moderate elements in the Iranian government. While the lawmakers said that the arms deals may have begun as a diplomatic overture, they added that the Administration was motivated primarily by a "deep personal concern on the part of the President for the welfare of U.S. hostages both in the early stages of the initiative and throughout the program." After the report was published, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes admitted that the operation "could be interpreted as a trade of arms...
Also yesterday, Iran's Foreign Ministry denied reports that Anglican Church hostage negotiator Terry Waite was held by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Lebanon...
Marines guarding the presidential palace fire on protesting farmers, and talks with Communist rebels collapse. -- In Beirut more Americans are taken hostage in a dramatic mass kidnaping following the arrest of a suspected terrorist in West Germany. -- Thousands flee north as Iranian shellfire turns the Iraqi port city of Basra into a pockmarked wasteland...