Manucher Ghorbanifar
1945 – ? Iranian Arms dealer and intermediary
Iranian arms dealer who brokered the Iran-Contra arms deals.
- Affiliations
- Iranian arms dealer who served as a middleman in the arms-for-hostages dealings of the Iran-Contra affair.
Manucher Ghorbanifar was an Iranian businessman and arms dealer who acted as a middleman between the United States and Iran in the arms-for-hostages transactions of the Iran-Contra affair. The CIA considered him unreliable and had issued a warning about him. He remained a controversial figure in later intelligence dealings.
Connections
- associate of Oliver North — Worked as an intermediary in the operation he ran.
In the timeline
- 1984 CIA issues burn notice on Ghorbanifar mentioned