#Iran
5 entries tagged Iran.
People (1)
- Gary Sick Gary Sick was the principal White House aide for Iran on the Carter National Security Council during the 1979-1981 hostage crisis, and subsequently authored October Surprise (1991), the book that launched congressional investigations into allegations that Reagan's campaign secretly negotiated with Iran to delay the hostages' release.
Organizations (1)
- Iran-Israel Joint Committee The Iran-Israel Joint Committee was established in the fall of 1980 by Menachem Begin 1, who ordered Yehoshua Sagi and Nachum Admoni to appoint it.
Events (3)
- Iran-Contra Affair Political scandal involving the secret sale of arms to Iran to fund the Nicaraguan Contras in violation of the Boland Amendment, leading to indictments of multiple CIA and NSC officials.
- Iranian Revolution 1979 popular uprising that overthrew Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, establishing an Islamic republic and fundamentally reshaping Middle Eastern geopolitics.
- October Surprise The October Surprise allegation holds that William J. Casey and other figures in Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign secretly negotiated with Iranian representatives to delay the release of 52 American hostages past Election Day in exchange for promises of arms and release of frozen Iranian assets, with the hostages released minutes after Reagan was sworn in on January 20, 1981.