Prelude to an American Disaster
Author: George Dana Cameron
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Published: 1979
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Author: George Dana Cameron
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George D. Cameron III
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dariush Haghighat
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 992
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Association for University Business and Economic Research
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 330
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 138
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stuart Douglas Goldman
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 72
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Malcolm Byrne
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2017-09-11
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 0700625909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEverything began to unravel on October 5, 1986, when a Nicaraguan soldier downed an American plane carrying arms to “Contra” guerrillas, exposing a tightly held U.S. clandestine program. A month later, reports surfaced that Washington had been covertly selling arms to Iran (our sworn enemy and a state sponsor of terrorism), in exchange for help freeing hostages in Beirut. The profits, it turned out, were going to support the Contras, despite an explicit ban by Congress. In the firestorm that erupted, shocking details emerged, raising the prospect of impeachment, and the American public confronted a scandal as momentous as it was confusing. At its center was President Ronald Reagan amid a swirl of questions about illegal wars, consorting with terrorists, and the abuse of presidential power. Yet, despite the enormity of the issues, the affair dropped from the public radar due to media overkill, years of legal wrangling, and a vigorous campaign to forestall another Watergate. As a result, many Americans failed to grasp the scandal’s full import. Through exhaustive use of declassified documents, previously unavailable investigative materials, and wide-ranging interviews, Malcolm Byrne revisits this largely forgotten and misrepresented episode. Placing the events in their historical and political context (notably the Cold War and a sharp partisan domestic divide), he explores what made the affair possible and meticulously relates how it unfolded—including clarifying minor myths about cakes, keys, bibles, diversion memos, and shredding parties. Iran-Contra demonstrates that, far from being a “junta” against the president, the affair could not have occurred without awareness and approval at the very top of the U.S. government. Byrne reveals an unmistakable pattern of dubious behavior—including potentially illegal conduct by the president, vice president, the secretaries of state and defense, the CIA director and others—that formed the true core of the scandal. Given the lack of meaningful consequences for those involved, the volume raises critical questions about the ability of our current system of checks and balances to address presidential abuses of power, and about the possibility of similar outbreaks in the future.
Author: Robert Ghobad Irani
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 18
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis memorandum discusses the evolution of Soviet policy toward Iran during the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, 1941-78, in the context of the changes in the international system in general, and within the setting of changing US-Iranian and Soviet-Iranian relations in particular. An attempt is made to analyze the changes in Soviet policy toward Iran from the perspective of a small nation (Iran) located directly below the Soviet Union, and the overall impact of the effect of that geopolitical reality on Iran's foreign relations with Moscow and Washington. (Author).