# Iran-Contra and Executive Power

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Administration officials secretly facilitated arms sales to Iran and diverted proceeds toward the Contra war in Nicaragua despite congressional restrictions. Reagan later acknowledged that the initiative had become an arms-for-hostages policy and accepted responsibility for failures of oversight, making Iran-Contra a defining test of executive accountability.

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