Iran-Contra Affair: Shady in the 80s, Part 1

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🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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When Ronald Reagan was president, America got involved in some deeply shady stuff, not the least of which was the Iran-Contra scandal – a convoluted operation that managed to combine an illegal covert war in Nicaragua with secretly selling arms to Iran.

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