Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Turkey and Iran. While the Shah was in power, Israel openly supplied arms to the Iranian military. But Israeli intelligence also cultivated ties with Iranian army officials after the 1979 revolution. In order to keep the relationship strong, then Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin shipped weapons and ammunition to Tehran in early...
...pipeline was evidently closed after Americans were seized at the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1980 but resumed once the captives were released. When George Shultz became Secretary of State in 1982, he insisted that Israel comply with the official ban on the sale of U.S. weapons to Iran. Meanwhile, some of Israel's key contacts in Iran were executed...
...early 1985 Adnan Khashoggi, a wealthy Saudi 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...
...Nidal and Abul Abbas. A continued stalemate would be best of all: it simultaneously weakens the frontline Arab states, deflects Arab attention from Israel and checks the expansion of Iranian-inspired Islamic fanaticism. But an outright Iranian victory could prove a mixed blessing. Moreover, just as the Tehran arms deal has backfired on the Reagan Administration, it might also turn out to be detrimental to Israel, for some of the weapons could be channeled to Shi'ite Muslim soldiers fighting Israeli troops in Lebanon...
WASHINGTON--A top-ranking State Department official yesterday bluntly challenged President Reagan's assurances that there's been no recent evidence of Iranian involvement in terrorism, while Reagan defended anew his decision to approve arms shipments to Tehran...