Led by neoconservative officials within the Reagan administration like National
Security Adviser Robert McFarlane in the early 1980s, the U.S. endorsed a
third-party deal to send weapons to Iran just six months after the hostage
crisis ended there. The move—meant to align American policy with Israel’s
desires to sell weapons to Iran while it was at war with Iraq—ultimately helped
plant the seeds for the later Iran-Contra scandal, newly released documents from
the National Archives reveal.
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