How "Iran" and "Contra" came to be said in the same breath ... Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh investigated the affair for the next eight years. Fourteen people were charged with either ...

Arguably the messiest, most explosive political scandal of the 1980s, the Iran-Contra affair was such a PR blunder for the U.S. government that Reagan was forced to take full responsibility for it ...

Both characterisations, wrote Mr Will, are too kind. The Iran-Contra affair was not, he wrote, an aberration – it was a policy of the same pattern as the Daniloff debacle, and the Iceland summit ...

as well as at least one bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut.The policy humiliations of the Iran-Contra affair stemmed directly from the attempts of senior U.S. officials to gain the release of U ...