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Iran-Contra Documents

For more reports, visit: www.brown.edu/Research/Understanding_the_Iran_Contra_Affair/ Three reports: The Tower Commission Congressional Reports on Iran-Contra Declaration of Plaintiff's Counsel - Avrigan v. Hull From Wikipedia: The Iran–Contra affair ( Persian : ایران-کنترا ‎‎, Spanish : caso Irán-Contra ), also referred to as Irangate , [1] Contragate [2] or the Iran–Contra scandal , was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration . Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran , which was the subject of an arms embargo . [3] They hoped thereby to secure the release of several US hostages , and to fund the Contras in Nicaragua . Under the Boland Amendment , further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress. The scandal began as an operation to free the seven American hostages being held in Lebanon by a group with Iranian ties connected to the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution . It was planned that Israel would ship weapons to Iran , and then the United States would resupply Israel and receive the Israeli payment. The Iranian recipients promise

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