TyroneSlothrop
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OK here is Ronald in his own words...whacked out conspiracy theories...this is no theory my wing nut this is documented fact...Ronald"depend undergarment" Reagan traded arms for hostages with the Ayatollah
No, he sold them weapons at four times the cost in order to get their cooperation to free hostages. That's not trading arms for hostages. That's selling them arms as a matter of policy.
And here's the gag. The reason why the Iran-Iraq War went on as long as it did was that most of the world kept selling Saddam and the Ayatollahs weapons as long as they had the oil money to pay for them. China, Russia and France just saw weapons sales as commerce. We tried to see weapons sales as buying us influence.

he delayed the release of the hostages in Iran by promising the Ayatollahs a better deal and he delivered
Without Reagan's Treason, Iran Would Not Be a Problem
the American Embassy in Tehran.
Bani-Sadr was a moderate and, as he explained in an editorial for The Christian Science Monitor earlier this year, had successfully run for President on the popular position of releasing the hostages:
"I openly opposed the hostage-taking throughout the election campaign.... I won the election with over 76 percent of the vote.... Other candidates also were openly against hostage-taking, and overall, 96 percent of votes in that election were given to candidates who were against it [hostage-taking]."
Carter was confident that with Bani-Sadr's help, he could end the embarrassing hostage crisis that had been a thorn in his political side ever since it began in November of 1979.
But Carter underestimated the lengths his opponent in the 1980 Presidential election, California Governor Ronald Reagan, would go to screw him over.
Behind 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."