On February 14, 1979, the U.S. Embassy in Teheran was overrun by several different armed groups and the staff was taken hostage. They wouldn’t be released until Ronald Reagan’s inauguration day 20 January 1981. This led to speculation Reagan had negotiated with Khomeini to hold the hostages through the elections (October Surprise Theory).

Ronald Reagan sent Jimmy Carter as an envoy to meet the hostages. Democrats and Republicans didn’t hate each other back then. Carter lost the election largely due to the Iranian Hostage Crisis. His administration was unable to secure their release or rescue the hostages.

The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa exposed the Iran Contra Affair on 3 November 1986. A senior official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps named Mehdi Hashemi made statements about CIA shipments of weapons including Hawk missiles to the Iranian Theocracy. Initially President Reagan made it seem the deal was part of an agreement reached to return 7 US hostages that had been held by Hezbollah.

Soon the scope of the project came to light. Money was being sent to Iran illegally by the Reagan administration to purchase weapons. The weapons were being sent to the Nicaraguan Contra militias in their fight against the Sandinistas. The US Congress had made support for Iran and the Contras illegal. Dozens of members of the administration were investigated and charged. Convictions were pardoned or overturned by George Bush Sr during his term as president.

Mehdi Hashemi was a Shia cleric. He had been jailed by the Pahlavi regime for “vigilante murders of prostitutes, homosexuals and drug dealers” and the murder of a cleric who was critical of the Ayatollah Khomeini. He was released after the Iranian Revolution and became an important member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and a liaison to Hezbollah.

After leaking the Iran Contra Scandal to the Lebanese press he was arrested, defrocked and executed by the Ayatollah Khomeini. All this happened while the giant Phil was working for Aramco in Saudi Arabia (1978 through 1990).

The Ayatollah Khomeini refused to release the 52 remaining American hostages taken during the Iranian Revolution to President Jimmy Carter. Khomeini released the hostages the day of Ronald Reagan’s inauguration. Carter had unfrozen Iranian assets to the tune of $8 billion. The Iran Contra affair had nothing to do with their release. Although the assets had been unfrozen in October Khomeini still refused to release the hostages. Reagan won the election in November 1980, largely due to the inability of Carter to secure the hostages release.

The Iran Iraq War was fought from Sep 22, 1980 – Aug 20, 1988. The Reagan administration was officially supporting Iraq. The Iran Contra Affair did not stop US financing for Iraq as the man gods had hoped. Neither did the attack on the USS Stark in 1987, when a lone Iraqi pilot rocketed a US naval vessel. When Saddam Hussein (Case Study 30) invaded Kuwait in 1990 with the man god Phil’s encouragement, George Bush Sr was smart enough not to oust the Iraqi leader. George Jr in 2003 wasn’t so smart.

Power vacuum is the term used to represent a state with no effective leadership. The collapse of Saddam Hussein’s government would lead to increasing Iranian influence or an outright takeover. This was as planned.

The Popular Mobilization Force is turning Iraq into an Iranian client state Brookings Institute

It’s handy to own two leaders of opposed nations.