What was significant about the Iran Contra Affair?

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Sim W.
Apr 14, 2017

Weapons were sold to Iran to finance the contras in Nicaragua.

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In 1986 Ronald Reagan became extremely unpopular and Republicans lost the election in the Senate(during the Midterm elections) for the first time since the fifties.

Colonel North was blamed and Ronald Reagan claimed to be unaware of the plot and used North as a scapegoat.

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