The Iran-Contra scandal highlights how little respect Reagan Administration officials harbored for the guardrails of democracy yet suffered few penalties for their misdeeds. The rule-breaking and ...

The Iran-Contra Affair From the Collection: The Presidents. Share: Copy Link. Ronald ... When the Lebanese newspaper "Al-Shiraa" printed an exposé on the clandestine activities in November 1986, ...

The Iran-Contra Scandal was a tangled web of covert arms deals, hostage negotiations, and secret wars, all orchestrated behind the backs of Congress and the American people.

Both action and inaction will have consequences. If the war concludes with both Fordow and the Islamic Republic intact, it ...

WASHINGTON – Now comes a new chapter in U.S.-Iran relations, whether for the better or the even worse. For nearly a half ...

WASHINGTON — Robert Gates successfully navigated the legal and political perils of the Iran-Contra scandal. He emerged as CIA director and survived an ordeal that took a heavy toll on the first ...

Richard V. Secord, a former Air Force general and CIA operative who was the logistical middleman in the Iran-contra scandal that rocked the Reagan administration with illegal arms sales to Iran to ...

The Iran-Contra scandal highlights how little respect Reagan Administration ... When a so-called private plane came crashing down in Nicaragua just weeks before news of the arms sales to Iran ...

Richard V. Secord, a former Air Force general and C.I.A. operative who was the logistical middleman in the Iran-contra scandal that rocked the Reagan administration with illegal arms sales to Iran ...

The GOP’s dismissal of the scandal has shaped politics in the decades since Iran-Contra. Dick Cheney, who served on the House Iran-Contra committee in 1987, later became vice president and ...