WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 19: This file photo shows reporter Helen Thomas as she questions former US President Ronald Reagan during a press conference at the White House 19 March,1987 in Washington, DC. This was the first press conference that Reagan had held since 19 November 1986, six days before the disclosure that profits from arm sales to Iran were diverted to the Contras. (Photo credit should read DON RYPKA/AFP via Getty Images)
Politics, Personalities, USA, pic: January 1981, Washington D,C, President Ronald Reagan speaking on the problems the US faced with Iran, Ronald Reagan (born 1911) became the 40th President of the United States serving from 1981-1989 (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Hanging effigies of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev are carried by demonstrators, who blamed the superpowers, after a group of Iranian pilgrims were killed in Mecca during the annual Haj pilgrimmage by security forces, 4th August 1987 in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)
CANADA - DECEMBER 12: Frank Carlucci is the latest of Reagan's national security advisers. Predecessor John Poindexter resigned over the Iran arms sale scandal. (Photo by David Cooper/Toronto Star via Getty Images)
An Iranian Revolutionary Guard (Pasdar) adjusts a portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini on top of the U.S. embassy walls during the anniversary of its occupation, 4th November 1988 in Tehran, Iran. A U.S. flag is at hand to be put on fire as a gesture of hatred towards America. The militant students "Following Imam Line" stormed and occupied the US embassy in Tehran on November 4th, 1979 and kept the diplomatic staff hostage for 444 days and released them after Jimmy Carter lost the presidential election to his Republican opponent Ronald Reagan. (Photo by Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)
