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2 November Iran scandal exposed by the media: the United States Secret Arms sales to Iran earn 10 million U.S. dollars
Today in history, follow Sasha to learn history for half a minute every day. The Iran Gate incident on November 2, 1986 was exposed by the media. The Iran Gate incident was an incident in which the Reagan administration secretly sold weapons to Iran.
After 1985, the Lebanese Hezbollah supported by Iran kidnapped 7 American hostages. William Casey, then director of the Central Intelligence Agency, found a way to rescue the hostages. Everyone knows that the beneficiary of Hezbollah is Iran, and Iran is also in trouble at this moment.
After the Islamic Revolution broke out in Iran, King Pahlavi went into exile to the United States to obtain political asylum. The Khomeini government was extremely angry about this, believing that the United States had interfered in Iran’s internal affairs and turned against the United States fiercely.
In 1979, hundreds of young Iranian students suddenly rushed into the US Embassy and detained all American diplomats. This is the famous Iranian hostage crisis.
This move is tantamount to dropping a time bomb and declaring war on the United States.
66 American diplomats and civilians were detained for more than a year before being released. As a result, the United States and Iran became enemies.
The United States announced economic sanctions and military embargoes against Iran, and also frozen Iran’s approximately US$8 billion in US property. In 1980, the United States officially announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Iran.
However, the sudden outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War changed a few things.
Iran’s navy and army forces have long been aided and sold by the United States and are equipped with a large number of American-made weapons. Iran's main weapons such as fighter jets, air defense missiles, tanks, warships, and anti-tank missiles are almost all American goods.
Without American weapons, the Iranian army cannot fight.
Now the U.S. Congress bans the sale of weapons and spare parts to Iran, paralyzing a large number of American weapons owned by Iran.
This has seriously affected the combat effectiveness of the Iranian army, and is also an important reason for the initial fallout by the Iraqis.
Take the F14 fighter jet of the Iranian Air Force as an example. Many fighters were grounded due to lack of parts. The devastated Iranian Air Force was forced to adopt Guo Degang's way of building up planes. They disassembled one intact F14 and used parts for the remaining two fighters.
The huge threat of Iraqis is right in front of them, and Iran is forced to soften.
Through friendly country Israel, Iran told the CIA: As long as the United States agrees to continue selling US-made weapons to Iran, Iran can persuade Hezbollah to release the hostages.
However, the Reagan administration knew that this was impossible, and the US Congress would not approve arms sales at all.
However, Americans are a very pragmatic country and will not give up actual interests because of some illusory ideologies.
secretly selling weapons to Iran is not harmful to the United States.
First, U.S.-Iran relations can be improved, there is no need to be so tense;
Second, it can solve the American hostage problem in Lebanon;
Third, this is arms sales rather than sending weapons, the United States It is possible to obtain considerable profits to support the anti-government operations in Nicaragua. After Nicaragua's leftist party came to power, it immediately fell to the Soviet Union, posing a greater threat to the United States. The United States wants to support the country’s rebels, but Congress does not approve funding. The CIA can use the profits from Iran’s arms sales to support the actions of the Nicaraguan rebels and alleviate urgent needs.
So, led by Reagan’s National Security Assistant McFarlane,As a third party, Israel began to sell weapons to Iran in August 1985.
They first asked Israel to ship its stock of American weapons such as Hawker missiles and Tao missiles to Iran. The United States then shipped the weapons to Israel. This seems to be an arms sale to Israel to cover people's eyes.
On August 20, 1985, the first batch of 96 missiles was shipped from Israel. A few hours after the weapons arrived in Iran, Hezbollah released the American hostage Weir, who had been kidnapped for 16 months.
By the time the secret was revealed by the media in November of the second year, the United States had conducted six arms sales to Iran, worth 30 million U.S. dollars, and three American hostages were released. During
, Admiral Poindexter, Lieutenant Colonel North, an official of the National Security Council, and others were involved. The director of the CIA, William Casey, is responsible for providing intelligence.
Lieutenant Colonel North also deposited 10 million U.S. dollars in profits from arms sales directly into the Nicaraguan rebels’ account in Switzerland.
Unfortunately, this matter was worn out on November 2, 1986.
There is a son-in-law in Monzetta, the deputy leader of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, who knows about secret arms sales between Iran and the United States.
This son-in-law has a big mouth, and he told his brother Hashmi, the director of the Office of the Islamic Liberation Movement.
Hashmi is an extremist who believes that Iran should not cooperate with the heretical United States.
Outraged, Hashmi secretly broke the news to Lebanese "Sailing" weekly. The
weekly published the news immediately, and it also produced definitive evidence that the US special envoy McFarlane met with Iranian representatives.
As a result, public opinion in the United States has been uproarious.
At this time, the American media and the Iranian media are fighting fiercely.
Announcing that the United States, which absolutely does not deal with terrorists, secretly sold weapons to Iran, ignoring the congressional ban. This is a big deal, and it is tantamount to not taking the US Constitution seriously.
Congress immediately requested an investigation.
For this reason, many of Reagan’s subordinates were forced to resign and were sued by the court, including William Casey, McFarlane, General Poindexter, Lieutenant Colonel North and others. Even the Secretary of Defense Weinberg has been charged, although he has repeatedly opposed the plan.
Among them, Casey had better luck. He died of a heart attack before the trial; McFarlane was sentenced to two years in prison and a fine of 20,000 US dollars; Poindexter was charged with five conspiracy charges, Obstruction of justice and perjury, but he was waived on appeal and was acquitted; Weinberg was charged with one crime of perjury and one crime of obstruction of justice, and he was also acquitted; these people are in old age President Bush was pardoned after he took office, including the small character Lieutenant Colonel North.
Reagan claimed to be unaware.
However, the whistleblower in Iran is not so lucky.
Hashmi, who leaked the secret, was executed by Khomeini on charges of treason, murder, kidnapping and forged documents. Deputy leader Monzettari was also forced to resign.
The Iran Gate is a classic event during the Cold War.
It shows that the real power in the US military and political circles will inevitably risk concealing the threat of Congress and the people to do what they think is right.
However, these are violations of the US Constitution and cannot be accepted by the American people.
Interestingly, Lieutenant Colonel North, who was originally just a errand boy, later became famous.
In the famous movie "King of War", Lieutenant Colonel Sarden, who sold US military weapons and exonerated the arms smuggler Yuri, was insinuating Lieutenant Colonel North. In the movie, Lieutenant Colonel Sarden always hides in the shadows, without revealing his true colors. Maybe this is the Lieutenant Colonel North in reality. He can't see what he is doing.
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