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Ari Ben-Menashe was born in Tehran, Iran and immigrated to Israel as a teenager.

In November 1989, he was arrested in the United States for violating the Arms Export Control Act for trying to sell three Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft to Iran using false end-user certificates.[4][12][13] Ben-Menashe claimed that the Israeli government offered him a plea bargain.[14]

After realizing that Israel was not going to support him, Ben-Menashe began to give interviews to journalists from prison on matters including his role in the October Surprise and its links with the Iran–Contra affair.

Ben-Menashe testified in 1991 that he had personally witnessed George HW Bush attend a meeting with members of the Iranian government in Paris in October 1980, as part of a covert Republican Party operation to have the 52 U.S hostages held in Iran remain there until President Jimmy Carter, who was negotiating their release, had lost the 1980 presidential election to Ronald Reagan.

[ScaniaBoy]

Ben-Menashe testified in 1991 that he had personally witnessed George HW Bush attend a meeting with members of the Iranian government in Paris in October 1980...

That's one of the reasons he is not credible.

Below is an article from the Washington Post, July 1, 1992:

PANEL FINDS BUSH WAS NOT IN PARIS ON 1980 'OCTOBER SURPRISE' DATES
July 1, 1992
By Associated Press

Congressional investigators said yesterday "all credible evidence" contradicts claims that George Bush went to Paris in 1980 to cut a deal with Iran to delay the release of American hostages.

The House task force said it would keep investigating whether the Reagan-Bush campaign conspired with Iran to delay the release of the 52 American captives in an "October surprise" effort to rob then-President Carter of a potential boost toward reelection.

The head of the task force, Rep. Lee H. Hamilton (D-Ind.), said it had interviewed about 50 witnesses, listened to thousands of hours of FBI surveillance tapes and was sifting through tens of thousands of pages of documents provided by the CIA, the State Department and other agencies.

Several people, among them an Israeli arms dealer and a man claiming to have worked as a pilot on secret government missions, have said they saw Bush in Paris on Oct. 19 or 20, 1980.

But Hamilton said, "All credible evidence leads to the conclusion that President Bush was in the United States" between Oct. 18 and 22, 1980, when as vice-presidential candidate he was alleged to have flown to Paris for secret meetings with Iranian representatives.

"We are glad that Congress, in a bipartisan report, concluded today what we knew all along -- that President Bush had no involvement with any alleged meetings in Paris in October 1980," press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said.

The interim report said investigators had received uncensored logs from the Secret Service recording the whereabouts of Bush and his wife Barbara during the days in question.

Partial Secret Service logs obtained by The Associated Press show Bush on a campaign trip in the New York and Philadelphia areas, returning to Washington the night of Oct. 18, playing tennis at the Chevy Chase Country Club the next day, having Sunday brunch with friends, addressing a meeting in Washington that evening, and campaigning in Connecticut on Oct. 20, 1980.