At various points, the Iran initiative violated each of these guidelines, resulting in significant difficulties.

As a result, the Iran initiative continued for almost 10 months without a review by the President's top advisors on foreign policy and defense.

This pattern persisted in the implementation of the Iran initiative.

The Iran initiative and contra diversion served as the primary case study in our review.

One of the mistakes made in the Iran initiative was to ignore the process.

The board was able to take a broad look at this but not in the detail which we devoted to the Iran initiative.

The action would also eliminate the rationale for the Iran initiative.

Such are the risks of relying on the various reports and newspaper articles about the Iran initiative.

My first exposure to the Iran initiative was, in reality, rather brief.

A. In fact, one must recall that it goes back to the spring of '84, before there was any Iran initiative.