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Iran, via third parties that included Israel. In a further refinement of capitalist spy-craft, the proceeds of these sales were used to finance the right-wing Contra rebels, who were attempting to topple the socialist Sandinista government in Nicaragua
The disproportion between the offense and its consequences left Nixon incredulous: “[A]ll the terrible battering we have taken,” he commiserated with himself shortly before leaving office, “is really pygmy-sized when compared to what we have done, and what we can do in the future not only for peace in the world but, indirectly, to effect the well-being of people everywhere
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
Americans and Europeans rarely ask themselves whether the widespread popular loathing of Western policy in the Middle East might actually be justified. In America, it is the 444-day hostage situation endured by US diplomats in Tehran from 1979 to 1981 that is seen as the outrage of the era, rather than the self-serving and illegal removal of Mossadegh three decades before. The
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