Ascandal emerged when individuals in president reagan's administration secretly sold weapons to iran in exchange for the release of american hostages being held in the middle east, and then sent the profits from these sales to the

The people in Reagan's government sent to profits to the contras. the profits were made by selling the weapons to Iraq, in exchange for the American hostages. The sandal is infamously known as Iraq-Contra scandal.  Reagan was not aware of all this, but his career was on the verge of destruction b this scandal.