Iran Might Want a Tucson Hostage
1986 means something when referring to Arizona’s relationships with Iran. It always has and always will.
In November of 1986, the Iran-Contra Affair hit its boiling point when the political and constitutional deception was exposed during President Ronald Reagan’s second term, and Tucson, Arizona, was at the center of the operations. My grandfather was a high-ranking member of the US military; in fact, my birth name was that of a US military operation in Vietnam. I changed my name in part because who wants to be named after genocide; however, Grandpa used to call Reagan “all hands” during the affair, as I got older, I understood.
In the simplest explanation, the “affair” involved two illegal operations directed by the National Security Council (NSC) to bypass Congress. History does have a way of repeating itself. Illegal or not some things must be done.
- Arms-for-Hostages (Iran): The President Reagan administration secretly sold anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to Iran, which was under an arms embargo and an enemy of the United States. The NSC negotiated the defense products in exchange for the release of seven American hostages held in Lebanon by Hezbollah. The anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles are suggested in CIA files to have secretly flown out of Marana Air Field, which is located just outside Tucson. The company Southern Air Transport is listed in CIA files, held military contracts, operated out of Marana, and was identified as a CIA front.
- Funding the Contras (Nicaragua): The US used proceeds from weapons sales to Iran to fund the Contras, an anti-communist rebel group in Nicaragua. This direct funding was prohibited by the Boland Amendments, which Congress passed to halt US military aid to the rebels.
Essentially, once the US-supplied missiles to Iran went belly up, the US made an enemy for life, but it doesn’t stop there.
Tribunal Justice coincides with the Iran-Contra Affair. In 1986, as Iran lost its weapons supply line, another blow hit: the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal (IUSCT) sided with Arizona’s Phelps Dodge Corporation in a landmark expropriation case from the Iranian Revolution. Yikes, let me explain.
In 1974, Phelps Dodge, yes, the Phelps Dodge monitored by the CIA, that supplied copper cables to the CIA Pine Gap hub in Australia so that Pine Gap could surveillance all US enemies, the same Phelps Dodge where in 1974, Savannah Guthrie’s father was working, well, that Phelps Dodge helped found SICAB, an Iranian company manufacturing wire and cable products, the pattern continues. The corporation held a 19.36% equity interest in the venture.
But the 1979 revolution jacked up the deal; the Iranian government slowly and painfully alienated Phelps Dodge’s interest. On November 15, 1980, the Iranian Council for the Protection of Industries (ICPI) formally gifted SICAB to Iran-controlled banks, so obviously, Phelps Dodge sued the Islamic Republic of Iran for the full value of its investment, citing the Treaty of Amity between the U.S. and Iran, which required “just compensation” for nationalized property. Talk about pissing off Iran amidst the end of the illegal trade of missiles.
The Tribunal’s Decision matters, and it matters greatly because it became a standard in international law, a standard that made Iran look weak.
The IUSCT issued two separate awards on March 19, 1986 (literally as all hell was breaking loose with the Iran-Contra Affair)
Phelps Dodge Corp. v. Iran (Award 217): It ordered Iran to pay Arizonas Phelps Dodge the full value of the investment with 11.25% annual interest for 6 years prior. aka $2,437,860, plus interest.
Phelps Dodge International Corp. v. Iran (Award 218): The Tribunal awarded the Arizona Corporation an additional $168,870.79 for unpaid invoices
Let me be clear, the money didn’t piss off Iran; this is petty cash. The international standard favoring Arizona is what chapped their ass. The case is relentlessly cited in international law because it solidified that when a government takes over a private company for an indefinite period, the government becomes liable for the property, but not just liable, Liable for the property at full market value, and even if a government argues they had no intention of keeping the property, tough.
This was the ego blow Iran didn’t need, as it was busy trying to fill the void of the Iran-Contra Affair missiles also yanked out from under them. 1986 was a bad year for these clowns, 1989 was a bad year for Savannah Guthrie’s family when her father died suddenly on a mining exploration trip to Mexico while working for Phelps Dodge (interesting), but 2026, well, it’s about to get worse between Arizona and Iran.
July of 2025 Arizona officials reported a cyber-attack on the Secretary of State’s website, I wont go deep into this because much is still unknown and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes acted like an absolute jack ass, but it came to light that the Iranian government was responsible for the hack, not hard to figure out since the hackers cut and pasted Ayatollah Khomeini face all over the Arizona SOS website. The bat shit crazy part is that Secretary of State Adrian Fontes failed to inform the feds of the Iranian hack into Arizona’s government website. Correct, SOS hid this from the feds.
I am unable to confirm whether the Iran-linked group known as “CyberAv3ngers” was responsible for the photo-upload hack. What we are told is unlikely to be true. Iran would not hack solely to play Ayatollah School Picture Day. Maybe they needed an Arizona Senator’s address, just for example: Senator Mark Kelly’s address for something, just an example: maybe Iran wanted to send Senator Mark Kelly a ransom note, because they hacked the portal where senators’ home address info would be.
Then, in the early morning hours of Feb 1st, 2026, Nancy Guthrie vanished. Just had to toss that in.
Raytheon is the only Arizona company to piss Iran off more than Phelps Dodge. A little-known fact is that the top Raytheon executive lives on “golden pond,” yup, the pond from On Golden Pond with Jane Fonda. I sent him a letter to stop donating to the Southern Arizona Education Council, because the Tucson Nonprofit is run by a gay porn actor who sent porn to a child. I know some people in high places, so Raytheon is unlikely to float the education councils’ perversions at the Direction of Rep Adelita Grijalva. Odd how Grijalva is all anti Iran war but her families education nonprofit was funded by Raytheon, that blows up Iran. Smells Fishy, but I digressed back to the point.
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Raytheon, a subsidiary of RTX Corporation, is the primary manufacturer of major weapon systems used by the United States in strikes against Iran, and you guessed it, the weapons are manufactured at Raytheon’s Tucson, Arizona plant, which is the largest private employer in the city. Over 500 Tomahawks built at the Tucson facility were fired at Iran in the first 16 days of the war. Which means roughly two billion in weapons blowing up Iran came from Tucson.
The Tomahawk Cruise Missile, produced in Tucson, was deployed in the initial attack of February 2026 to hit command centers, naval bases, and air defenses — coinciding with Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.
Other Key Raytheon Weapons Used Against Iran
AMRAAM: Deployed by U.S. and allAMRAAM: Deployed by the U.S. and allies to target Iranian aircraft.: Used to defend U.S. air bases and assets from Iranian missiles.
AGM-154 JSOW: Navy aircraft launch these glide bombs to hit targets at range.
Phalanx CIWS: Rapid-fire gun for naval defense against drones and missiles.
SM-3 and SM-6: Intercept ballistic threats at high altitude.
Good times for Iran, with pleasure, love Tucson.
The above is strong evidence as to why Iran might want a Tucson hostage, but the below is why Arizona might want to blow up Iran.
In November 2023, an Iranian group, “CyberAv3ngers,” hacked a water pump in Pennsylvania, forcing manual operation and displaying an anti-Israel message. Federal agencies warned of Iranian hackers targeting infrastructure, in particular, Unitronics Vision Series programmable logic controllers (PLCs), which are Israeli-manufactured devices used to regulate pressure, temperature, and flow of United States water.
It is unsettling to consider, in a city where water is vital for survival as temperatures reach 115 degrees, that the Unitronics Vision Series, also known as Vision570, controls operations at more than 40 Tucson sites. This highlights the risk if Iranian actors were to compromise Tucson’s water supply.
The United States either needs an Iranian hostage or needs to defeat the enemy. Has anyone seen Nancy Guthrie?
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The Coal Miner’s Daughter and The Cult Leader’s Son
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Article on Tucson Gem Show, Originally published 366 days before the abduction of Nancy Guthrie.
