In 1986,the Reagan administration suffered a serious political scandal after the White House admitted the federal government had
A)secretly sold weapons to the revolutionary government of Iran.
B)secretly helped finance anti-government rebels in Nicaragua.
C)illegally funneled money from arms sales.
D)both illegally funneled money from arms sales and secretly helped finance anti-government rebels in Nicaragua.
E)All these answers are correct.

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The Iran-Contra affair was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of President Ronald Reagan. The scandal involved the sale of arms to Iran, which was then under an arms embargo, and the diversion of some of the proceeds from the sale to fund the Contras, a rebel group fighting against the socialist government of Nicaragua.

In 1986,the Reagan Administration Suffered a Serious Political Scandal After