A Criminal Presidency

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Khomeini needed spare parts for American weapons systems the Shah had purchased for Iran, and the Reagan campaign was happy to promise them.
41% : During the Carter/Reagan election battle of that year, then-President Carter had reached a deal with newly-elected Iranian President Abdolhassan Bani-Sadr to release the fifty-two hostages held by students at the American Embassy in Tehran.
41% : As President Bani-Sadr told The Christian Science Monitor in March of 2013: "After arriving in France [in 1981], I told a BBC reporter that I had left Iran to expose the symbiotic relationship between Khomeinism and Reaganism.
16% : And the same day Reagan took the oath of office -- to the minute, as Reagan put his hand on the Bible -- by way of Iran's acknowledging the deal, the Ayatollah released the American hostages.

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