What prompted the United States to take action in the Middle East?

The Iran-Contra scandal or the Iran-Contra affair.

Explanation:

During this time, Ronald Reagan was president. He ended up being under a lot of fire since a lot of people suspected him of knowing something about this or even being hands-on about it.

This scandal had to do with the United States government or even some high up officials giving Iran weapons. Iran was in a war with Iraq during this time, so it would obviously help Iran to get weapons.

In exchange for weapons, the United States government would get hostages, this has to do with the hostage crisis centered in Iran.

After all of this, Ronald Reagan apologized and took complete blame for what happened.

hi friend   look late me tall   you with my experience first politic because this subject   it is more politic than be religious   and also give you my experience in islam

first   the islam it is not religion order to kill for we be clear .

so bin laden he not was man of religion   for he use they taught sound islamic theology.

osama bin laden he was influenced by mullah mohammad omar, a very radical manosama bin laden's little understanding of religion has made osama bin laden's speech radical and deviated from the teachings of islam

so the answer > they used radical persuasive rhetoric

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