truth-has-a-liberal-bias: robertcmmacgregor: This is despicable. “The Secretary of Iran’
truth-has-a-liberal-bias: robertcmmacgregor: This is despicable. “The Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), Ali Shamkhani, just alleged that Congressional Republicans attempted to parlay with the Iranian government in an attempt to postpone the recent prisoner exchange until after the election.” “Several individuals—most notably former Iranian President Abulhassan Banisadr, former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, former Naval intelligence officer and National Security Council staff member Gary Sick; and former Reagan/Bush campaign and White House staffer Barbara Honegger—have stood by the allegation” that Reagan’s presidential campaign had conspired with Iran to delay the release until after the election to thwart President Carter from pulling off an “October surprise.” (Wikipedia) Read more here: http://bit.ly/1PFSRfG Image by Occupy Democrats, LIKE our page for more! From Truth-Out: Behind (President) Carter’s back, the Reagan campaign worked out a deal with the leader of Iran’s radical faction - Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini - to keep the hostages in captivity until after the 1980 Presidential election. This was nothing short of treason. The Reagan campaign’s secret negotiations with Khomeini - the so-called “October Surprise” - sabotaged Carter and Bani-Sadr’s attempts to free the hostages. And as Bani-Sadr told The Christian Science Monitor in March of this year, they most certainly “tipped the results of the [1980] election in Reagan’s favor.” […] -- source link