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Irangate
     
Irangate, the Iran-Contra Affair
a political scandal in 1987, when it was discovered that members of President Reagan's government had sold weapons to Iran in exchange for the return of US hostages (=people kept as prisoners by an enemy), and had then used the profits to support the Contras, an unofficial army that was fighting the government in Nicaragua
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