The plan driving the approach was for Israel to ship weapons as a result of an middleman (recognized as Manucher Ghorbanifar) to the Islamic Republic as a way of aiding a supposedly average, politically influential faction within just the routine of Ayatollah Khomeini who was believed to be in search of a rapprochement with the United States soon after the transaction, the United States would reimburse Israel with the similar weapons, though.