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WASHINGTON--Accusing the Reagan Administration of violating the law, House Majority Leader Jim Wright (D-Tex.) said today that Iran paid more than $12 million for the weapons it purchased from the United States...
...Wright, commenting after a closed-door hearing with CIA Director William Casey, told reporters that 1000 of the 2008 TOW missiles bought from the United States were assembled in San Antonio last February. Others were shipped separately, he said...
...were paid for by Iran--$12 million plus," Wright said...
...Wright, who is likely to be House Speaker next year, said that other than the United States and Israel, "several other countries" have shipped arms to Iran. But he said these shipments were not necessarily connected to the efforts by the United States to improve U.S.-Iranian relations and free American hostages held in Lebanon...
Congressional leaders attending the White House briefing were Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas, Senate Democratic leader Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, House Democratic leader Jim Wright of Texas and Rep. Dick Cheney of Wyoming, chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee...