# Selects: Iran-Contra Affair: Shady in the 80s, Part 1

An episode of [Stuff You Should Know](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/278981407), 8 Aug 2026, 46 min.

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When Ronald Reagan was president, America got involved in some deeply shady stuff, not the least of which was the Iran-Contra scandal – a convoluted operation that managed to combine an illegal covert war in Nicaragua with secretly selling arms to Iran. Learn all about it with Josh and Chuck in this classic episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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