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* April 1980: Donald Gregg, a National Security Council aide with connections to George Herbert Walker Bush, meets Cyrus Hashimi in New York's Shazam restaurant, near Hashimi's bank.

Former Iranian President Bani-Sadr said in his 1991 book My Turn to Speak that he had " proof of contacts between Khomeini and the supporters of Ronald Reagan as early as the spring of 1980 .... Rafsanjani, Beheshti, and Ahmed Khomeini Ayatollah's son played key roles.