Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...specifically, but I think it was in our minds. We were concerned about the security of the operation. (Poindexter) was concerned about it falling apart and about not being able to follow through and get those other two hostages out and lose the opportunity to develop a relationship with Iran...
...know whether you can call them moderates, but there are people who want to deal differently. There are people who want to resume some kind of relationship with...
...That was the method of opening up the relationship, to get them talking. The Iranians were probably buying billions of dollars' worth of weapons. This was $12 million...
...think there's an argument about that. A lot of people doubt that it was a good idea. But I think it was a reasonable gamble, and I think the record shows that. We did get some hostages out. We did develop a relationship that may carry on or may not carry...
...July 3, 1985, David Kimche, then director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, came to see McFarlane in Washington. Kimche suggested that the time was ripe for the U.S. to establish communication with elements in the Iranian government who were willing to consider a new relationship. (Kimche has said publicly that McFarlane had approached him earlier with the same idea.) Kimche had already been in touch with the Iranians through a shadowy network: Khashoggi, Manucher Ghorbanifar -- an expatriate Iranian arms dealer -- and Israeli arms merchants were all part of it. The Israeli government, said Kimche, had confidence these Iranian contacts...