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Deep Background with Noah Feldman

Iran Contra: Episode 2 - Trade Secrets

Deep Background with Noah Feldman

Pushkin Industries

News Commentary, Government, News

4.4848 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

How the Reagan administration landed in a hostage crisis…and extended a hand to one of America’s sworn enemies.

For a list of books, documentaries and resources we used to research this episode visit: bit.ly/fiascopolitics


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0:00.0

Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley Season 1.

0:09.1

Every time I hear about my dad is, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.

0:13.7

I was becoming the bridge between Jeremy Scott and the son he'd never known.

0:18.5

At the end of the day, I'm literally a son of a killer.

0:21.2

Listen to new episodes of Bone Valley Season 2, starting April 9th on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:34.7

Pushkin.

0:40.2

Hey, Leon here.

0:41.9

Before we get to this episode, I want to let you know that you can binge the entire season of Fiasco, Iran-Contra, right now, ad-free by becoming a Pushkin Plus subscriber.

0:52.2

Sign up for Pushkin Plus on the Fiasco Apple Podcasts show page or visit pushkin.fm.

0:57.7

slash plus.

0:59.2

Now, on to the show.

1:05.0

Ronald Reagan makes his debut today as America's leading man.

1:17.5

On the morning of January 20, 1981, the White House was preparing for the arrival of a new president.

1:24.6

But some unfinished business was threatening to overshadow the festivities.

1:28.3

Reagan may be the first president who won't be the day's top news story on his inauguration day.

1:33.3

There's anxiety that hangs over everything. This whole business of the hostages.

1:38.3

This whole business of the hostages referred to more than 50 American citizens who were being held

1:44.3

prisoner in Iran. They had been there for more than a year, locked inside the U.S. Embassy in

1:50.3

Tehran by a group of young radicals. The U.S. Embassy in Tehran has been invaded and occupied

1:55.3

by Iranian students. The American hostages were blindfolded, handcuffed, and marched out on the U.S. Embassy's front steps by the revolutionary students.

2:04.1

The Iranians had fought U.S. Marine Guards for three hours for control of the embassy.

2:08.9

The hostage crisis started in November of 1979.

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