In the shadowy corridors of power, backdoor deals dictated the fate of nations, and one scandal nearly brought down the most powerful man in the world. The Iran-Contra Scandal was a tangled web of ...

How "Iran" and "Contra" came to be said in the same breath ... Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh investigated the affair for the next eight years. Fourteen people were charged with either ...

The United States has a long and storied history of trade with the international community. Following the Second World War, ...

Both characterisations, wrote Mr Will, are too kind. The Iran-Contra affair was not, he wrote, an aberration – it was a policy of the same pattern as the Daniloff debacle, and the Iceland summit ...

Some things only look perfect.

Consider the Iran-Contra affair in the 1980s, when senior US officials conspired to sell weapons to Iran – then under an arms embargo – and channel the proceeds to rebels trying to oust ...