Manucher Ghorbanifar

Manucher Ghorbanifar (Persian: منوچهر قربانی‌فر, nicknamed Gorba; born May 9, 1945) is an expatriate Iranian arms dealer and former SAVAK agent.

According to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Ghorbanifar was a double agent for Iran and Israel. CIA Director William Casey believed that Ghorbanifar was an Israeli agent.

He is best known as a middleman in the Iran–Contra Affair during the Ronald Reagan presidency. He re-emerged in American politics during the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq during the first term of President George W. Bush as a back-channel intelligence source who reported on "interactions and attempts at negotiations" between Iranian officials and US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad.