Manucher Ghorbanifar (Persian: ?????? ??????????; 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.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 to certain Pentagon officials who desired regime change in Iran.