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The ` Brokers of Death ' arms case -LRB- officially United States v. Samuel Evans et al -RRB- was a US trial in the 1980s relating to the attempted shipment of $ 2.5 bn worth of US-made arms to Iran ; it was described by the Los Angeles Times in 1986 as `` the largest arms conspiracy prosecution ever brought by the Justice Department '' .. Iran. Iran. Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times. The case -LRB- with indictments in May 1986 , following a four-month investigation -RRB- was dropped in January 1989 after the prosecution said it could not prove the defendants did not believe their dealings were officially sanctioned .. The planned deals were being arranged at the same time as the White House was secretly seeking to arrange arms sales to Iran , in what became known as the Iran-Contra affair ; some evidence indicated that defendants were aware of these efforts .. Iran. Iran. Iran-Contra affair. Iran-Contra affair