Reagan for Shah

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The Reagan for Shah campaign was spearheaded by the Plutonium Players, a satirical theater troupe that grew out of Berkeley College in the 1980s. Part of a long legacy of political activism on college campuses, their other tongue-in-cheek campaigns included Students For War and Ladies Against Women. The slogan references then-president Ronald Reagan’s involvement in the Iran-Iraq War, in which the Reagan administration sold arms to Iran in an attempt to secure the release of American hostages in Lebanon. This controversy, commonly referred to as Iran-Contra, ultimately tanked the American public’s trust in the Reagan administration.