<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair" id="mwAYM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Iran–Contra affair">Iran–Contra affair</a>: U.S. Attorney General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Meese" id="mwAYQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Edwin Meese">Edwin Meese</a> announces that profits from covert weapons sales to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran" id="mwAYU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Iran">Iran</a> were illegally diverted to the anti-communist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras" id="mwAYY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Contras">Contra</a> rebels in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua" id="mwAYc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a>.