Assertion: iran contra affair | /r/CapableOf | prove humiliating
Facets:
value: for the united states
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: At least part of the reason the Iran–Contra affair proved so humiliating for the United States when the story first broke in November 1986 that the US was selling arms to Iran was that American diplomats, as part of Operation Staunch had, from the spring of 1983 on, been lecturing other nations about how morally wrong it was to sell arms to the Islamic Republic of Iran and applying strong pressure to prevent these arms sales to Iran.:213