Manucher Ghorbanifar

November 1984 seine "Kollegen" Manucher Ghorbanifar und Ben Banerjee im Hamburger Hotel Atlantic, vereinbarte am 12. Dezember 1984 in der iranischen Botschaft in Bonn die Lieferung der verlangten 5000 TOW-Raketen, tauchte am 19. Dezember 1984 in Frankfurt, am 20. Dezember in Hamburg auf ...

That's my impression as well. Solomon has the typical habits of the Washington set, like breaking off mid-conversation with an interlocutor to scroll through his smartphone no matter how trivial the communication might be. He has a reputation for being meticulous in his work, especially in sourcing his ...

An income-tax raid on his ashram is reported to have uncovered original drafts of payments of millions of dollars to Khashoggi, who was allegedly implicated in the "Iran–Contra affair" as a key middleman in the arms-for-hostages exchange along with Iranian arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar. According ...

Ledeen had been obsessed with Iran for decades. In the mid-eighties, as a consultant to Reagan's National Security Council, he played a central role in the Iran-Contra affair—introducing Oliver North, Reagan's counterterrorism adviser, to Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian arms dealer. Ledeen's hope had ...

There was a popular saying among intelligence officers during the Iran-contra affair: How do you know an Iranian is lying? Because his lips are moving. It was applied to Manucher Ghorbanifar, the mercurial intermediary; and to his boss, the so-called “moderate” Parliament speaker, Akbar ...

The exact date of the hostage release, Clarridge claimed, was set by infamous Iran-Contra middleman Manucher Ghorbanifar, who Clarridge claims had “big bets in Las Vegas—big, big—millions” tied to the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. “What George tells you is the real story,” he said, ...

Ledeen's chief intermediary to Iran was a businessman named Manucher Ghorbanifar, who was held in disdain by the CIA as a fabricator but claimed he represented high-ranking Iranians who favored improved relations with the United States and were eager for American weapons. Ghorbanifar's chief ...

Ledeen's chief intermediary to Iran was a businessman named Manucher Ghorbanifar, who was held in disdain by the CIA as a fabricator but claimed he represented high-ranking Iranians who favored improved relations with the United States and were eager for American weapons. Ghorbanifar's chief ...

The proposed plan to change the Iran regime, which requested $5 million in initial “seed” money from the U.S. government, was outlined on a cocktail napkin by Iran contra arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar at a Rome bar during a three-day meeting in December 2001 that brought the Iran contra actors ...