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Originally Posted by MR. Wood
You are right sir Reagan made it know to Iran that as soon as he is sworn in that the bombs would rain down untill they were released  |
According to the first Iranian president after the revolution, Bani-Sadr, the Republicans approached him with an offer to arrange a favourable deal for Iran (who later got delivered fighterbombers via
Israel - gotta love history's irony), pointing out that they had the influence inside the CIA to change the activities of the CIA in Iran for the better or worse, and at the same time made clear their threat to assassinate him personally if Iran would not play ball to delay the release of the hostage until Reagan had won for sure. Parts of the Iranian government were sympathetic to the idea anyway, since Carter for them was a hate-figure with whom they thought to have some business to settle after Carter willed the armed rescue attempt that unfortunately, but not unexpectedly, failed.
the whole "october surprise" story is controversial, one has to admit that, yes. However, it is not true that there is consistent, uniform evidence that it all is just conspiration theory, and that everybody dismissed it as nonsens. at least as many witnesses and directly affected parties - I would say: even more - claim directly - or by the details of their part in the whole story give strong indication - that it all is a true story indeed. Also, if considering the political realities that later formed up, it makes much more sense to assume the Republican conspiracy took place indeed.
The Senate Committee examining the accusations and coming to conclusions of that nothing had been proven, means not much if remembering that political multi-party committees wage positional wars against each other in such committees, turning them into a domestic party-warground. Political observers in Germany for example say that the past 6-8 years have seen a record high of examining committees of the Bundestag, but I cannot remember that any of these many committees ever came to a clear and useful conclusion. Party interests blocked each other effectively, enforcing a result so much watered down that everybody could read everything into it.