[HaveHadEnough]

I often think that a secular strongman is the best government for these countries. Did we make the same mistake with Iraq that we did with Iran?

[100-Fold_Return]

A I-hate-to-bother-you-ping but Ff-150 was screaming, since 1976, from his housetop, that this former president and a neighbor of someone we know was the man Christians was dreading coming on the scene.

Ff-150 sure was a kook, was he not?

[Steely Tom]

On November 4, 1978, Brzezinski called the Shah to tell him that the United States would 'back him to the hilt.'

Yeah. Only problem: what Brzezinski meant was "we're going to stick a knife in your back, and it's going in right up to the hilt."

[true_blue_texican]

bump for later

[phs3]

ping

[Obie Wan]

So the moral of the story is if you want to be popular with the European Union and the United Nations you take the Carter\Clinton foreign policy track of aiding and abetting Islamic fascism every chance you get.Let some poor s.o.b. Republican President have to deal with the results of those policies and take the heat of being a "warmonger" from the world, while these two birds go around giving speechs about how bad things are now and how great they were when they were in the White House !!!

[true_blue_texican]

bttt

[savedbygrace]

I recall, around 1978, IIRC, on a business trip to San Francisco, staying in the Hyatt Regency, looking down from the balcony to the sidewalk below, seeing an anti-Shah rally.

Somewhere, I've got the photos I shot looking down on it. At the time, I was politically ignorant and had no idea what it all meant, other than concluding it made for some colorful photos.

[trumandogz]

While this a great piece of writing that details the US -Iran Events in the 1970's it fails to mention the 1954 US Intervention in Iran that took down a democratically elected leader and replaced him with the Shah who failed to extend democrat rights to his people. The people in Iran remember 1954 as if it were yesterday and the Revolution just began today.

[backhoe]

From the past:

Recalling the Shah of Iran-
various links | 8-18-02 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/735176/posts

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Yo bro, you might be interested.

[NY Cajun]

I'm still waiting for the son, now the Shah in Exile, to retake the country. I believe he is waiting for an opportune time because I know he has more than enough support in Iran. Not every Iranian that was enjoying the 20th Century in Iran fled. These are Persians, not Arabs, and they, for the most part, are more culturally diverse than their backwards neighbors. There's a reason why you only see protests against the government in Iran and not in other countries.
I just hope Riza Pahlevi can pull this off while Carter is still alive, just to stick it to him.

[FlyVet]

The New York Times of 1 January 1997, reproted that, "Iran Gave $500,000 to Bosnian President's Election Effort, U.S. Says." It further writes: The contributions, delivered by the Iranians in at least two suitcases full of cash, came on the evening of the national elections in September, in which Izetbegovic won a seat on the three-member presidency that is now to govern Bosnia after four years of war, the officials said. . . Iran's presence in Bosnia has exposed President Clinton to sharp criticism, particularly from Republicans on Capitol Hill, who have argued that the administration opened the door for Iran when it decided not to object to the flow of Iranian arms into Bosnia in 1994 in violation of an arms embargo."

Heh. Maybe Bill got a suitcase too.

[NY Attitude]

Let us all give thanks to jimmuh carter and his wisdom. NOT / sarcasm HEAVILY on!