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...immediate result of Meese's revelations was a spate of denials. In Jerusalem, the three top officials of the Israeli government -- Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin -- met in a crisis session and drafted a statement. For the first time, the government admitted what everyone knew: Israel had "helped in the transfer of defensive weapons and spare parts from the U.S. to Iran." But the Israelis flatly denied funneling any money to the contras. According to the statement, "The payment for this equipment was made directly by an Iranian representative to a Swiss...
...businessman, entered the picture. Khashoggi fostered ties to two Israeli arms merchants: Yaacov Nimrodi, a former army colonel and longtime Israeli military attache in Tehran during the Shah's reign; and Al Schwimmer, the founding president of Israel Aircraft Industries and a close friend of then Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. He brought them together with Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian arms dealer who was close to Iran's Prime Minister. According to the New York Times, the four met in London, where Ghorbanifar proposed that the Israelis ship TOW antitank missiles and Hawk antiaircraft missiles to Iran as a sign...
...sure, the plight of the hostages presented Reagan with an excruciating dilemma. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, on a visit to New York City last week, summarized it to TIME editors this way: "I think that every democracy is occasionally facing a contradiction in values. On one hand, you are decided to fight terrorism. On the other hand, you must remain concerned for the lives and safety of individual people . . . What is the balance...
...some minds the linkage began very early. In July 1985, Israeli businessmen who had been in contact with Iranian officials told Shimon Peres, then Israel's Prime Minister, that they thought a swap of arms for U.S. hostages could be arranged. Peres presumably communicated that information promptly to Ronald Reagan. The story in Jerusalem is that the White House designated Poindexter to look into the idea, and he named North as liaison with Israel. In any case, the Israeli businessmen were authorized by Peres to resume contacts and strike a deal with the Iranians. The executives turned to Adnan Khashoggi...
...YEARS OF National Unity Government under Shimon Peres produced something of a transformation in Israel--the chronic turbulence of Israeli politics, which reached new heights in the second term of the Begin government, abated radically under Peres...