Carter Administration’s Dilemma: Iran’s Theocracy

FSM ^ | 5/26/09 | Slater Bakhtavar

[Berosus]

So Zbiggie is the chief member of the Carter administration responsible for overthrowing the Shah? I wonder if he’s happy how it turned out? And is it a coincidence that he’s an Obama advisor now?

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[WestCoastGal]

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[SunkenCiv]

Zbig reportedly wanted to take action to prevent the Shah’s overthrow, and was overruled by both Carter and Mondale; he then became the strong supporter of doing nothing, and has remained there ever since.

[Alamo-Girl]

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[BARLF]

I wonder when the rest of America will wake up.

I don't know, I fear it's to late to stop this runaway train.

Our enemy has total control of our country and well laid plans to destroy her.

[sheik yerbouty]

At some point, there will be a “reichstag fire”..

[brooklyn dave]

All you hear about from mainstream sources is how brutal the Shah’s regime was. I am sure there were a lot of autocratic aspects of the regime, and that political opponents were jailed-—but look what the guy was up against. Now compare Iran under the mullahs to when it was under the Shah-—a paradise compared to today.I remember speaking to one fellow who was a young teen living in Iran because his father worked for an American company. He said it was free like the US, but it wasn’t so repessive. When I spoke to him the Shah was still in power.

[SolidWood]

It was (and is) naive to expect a developing country in the islamic world to be perfect on matters like press freedom or political participation. But Iran was without a doubt ahead for it’s time and place, and most importantly it was allied with the West and attempting to become a Western country. What more to expect? Especially as you said the Shah was facing a constant threat of Communist and Islamist Extremism.

When I lived in Iran during the latter years of the Shah, he argueably was most autocratic (1974-78), and it was a wonderful place to live in with freedoms you can’t imagine in Iran today.

The Shah was a true Renaissance man...
but the leftists in the West preferred to support instead a savage barbarian mullah lunatic.

[ChessExpert]

Thanks for the excellent article.

Part 2 could describe how the Ayatollah Khomeini radicalized Islam. Part 3 could detail the terrorist acts of radical Muslims from Khomeini on.

[ChessExpert]

Thanks for the posts.

[FARS]

“leftists in the West preferred to support instead a savage barbarian mullah lunatic.”

You mean Oba-Hussein-Khomeini?

Read this:

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/05/carter-oba-hussein-obambi-and-world-war.html

[Freedom Dignity n Honor]

Iran was such a beautiful, wonderful place under the Shah. I curse Cartah and the theocracy thugs for the damage they have done to the country and it's people on a nearly daily basis.