Carter Sold Out Iran 1977-1978

IranianVoice.org ^ | Chuck Morse

[F14 Pilot]

As if a light were switched off, the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlevi, portrayed for 20 years as a progressive modern ruler by Islamic standards, was suddenly, in 1977-1978, turned into this foaming at the mouth monster by the international left media. Soon after becoming President in 1977, Jimmy Carter launched a deliberate campaign to undermine the Shah. The Soviets and their left-wing apparatchiks would coordinate with Carter by smearing the Shah in a campaign of lies meant to topple his throne. The result would be the establishment of a Marxist/Islamic state in Iran headed by the tyrannical Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The Iranian revolution, besides enthroning one of the world's most oppressive regimes, would greatly contribute to the creation of the Marxist/Islamic terror network challenging the free world today.

At the time, a senior Iranian diplomat in Washington observed, "President Carter betrayed the Shah and helped create the vacuum that will soon be filled by Soviet-trained agents and religious fanatics who hate America." Under the guise of promoting" human rights," Carter made demands on the Shah while blackmailing him with the threat that if the demands weren't fulfilled, vital military aid and training would be withheld. This strange policy, carried out against a staunch, 20 year Middle East ally, was a repeat of similar policies applied in the past by US governments to other allies such as pre Mao China and pre Castro Cuba.

Carter started by pressuring the Shah to release "political prisoners" including known terrorists and to put an end to military tribunals. The newly released terrorists would be tried under civil jurisdiction with the Marxist/Islamists using these trials as a platform for agitation and propaganda. This is a standard tactic of the left then and now. The free world operates at a distinct dis-advantage to Marxist and Islamic nations in this regard as in those countries, trials are staged to "show" the political faith of the ruling elite. Fair trials, an independent judiciary, and a search for justice is considered to be a western bourgeois prejudice.

Carter pressured Iran to allow for "free assembly" which meant that groups would be able to meet and agitate for the overthrow of the government. It goes without saying that such rights didn't exist in any Marxist or Islamic nation. The planned and predictable result of these policies was an escalation of opposition to the Shah, which would be viewed by his enemies as a weakness. A well-situated internal apparatus in Iran receiving its marching orders from the Kremlin egged on this growing opposition.

By the fall of 1977, university students, working in tandem with a Shi'ite clergy that had long opposed the Shah's modernizing policies, began a well coordinated and financed series of street demonstrations supported by a media campaign reminiscent of the 1947-1948 campaign against China's Chiang Ki Shek in favor of the "agrarian reformer" Mao tse Tung. At this point the Shah was unable to check the demonstrators, who were instigating violence as a means of inflaming the situation and providing their media stooges with atrocity propaganda. Rumors were circulating amongst Iranians that the CIA under the orders of President Carter organized these demonstrations.

In November 1977, the Shah and his Empress, Farah Diba, visited the White House where they were met with hostility. They were greeted by nearly 4,000 Marxist-led Iranian students, many wearing masks, waving clubs, and carrying banners festooned with the names of Iranian terrorist organizations. The rioters were allowed within 100 feet of the White House where they attacked other Iranians and Americans gathered to welcome the Shah. Only 15 were arrested and quickly released. Inside the White House, Carter pressured the Shah to implement even more radical changes. Meanwhile, the Soviets were mobilizing a campaign of propaganda, espionage, sabotage, and terror in Iran. The Shah was being squeezed on two sides.

In April 1978, Moscow would instigate a bloody coup in Afghanistan and install the communist puppet Nur Mohammad Taraki. Taraki would proceed to call for a "jihad" against the "Ikhwanu Shayateen" which translates into "brothers of devils," a label applied to opponents of the new red regime in Kabul and to the Iranian government. Subversives and Soviet-trained agents swarmed across the long Afghanistan/Iran border to infiltrate Shi'ite mosques and other Iranian institutions. By November 1978, there was an estimated 500,000 Soviet backed Afghanis in Iran where, among other activities, they set up training camps for terrorists.

Khomeini, a 78-year-old Shi'ite cleric whose brother had been imprisoned as a result of activities relating to his Iranian Communist party affiliations, and who had spent 15 years in exile in Ba'th Socialist Iraq, was poised to return. In exile, Khomeini spoke of the creation of a revolutionary Islamic republic, which would be anti-Western, socialist, and with total power in the hands of an ayatollah. In his efforts to violently overthrow the government of Iran, Khomeini received the full support of the Soviets.

Nureddin Klanuri, head of the Iranian Communist Tudeh Party, in exile in East Berlin, stated, "The Tudeh Party approves Ayatollah Khomeini's initiative in creating the Islamic Revolutionary Council. The ayatollah's program coincides with that of the Tudeh Party." Khomeini's closest advisor, Sadegh Ghothzadeh, was well known as a revolutionary with close links to communist intelligence. In January 1998, Pravda, the official Soviet organ, officially endorsed the Khomeini revolution.

American leaders were also supporting Khomeini. After the Pravda endorsement, Ramsey Clark, who served as Attorney General under President Lyndon B. Johnson, held a press conference where he reported on a trip to Iran and a Paris visit with Khomeini. He urged the US government to take no action to help the Shah so that Iran "could determine it's own fate." Clark played a behind the scenes role influencing members of Congress to not get involved in the crisis. Perhaps UN Ambassador Andrew Young best expressed the thinking of the left at the time when he stated that, if successful, Khomeini would "eventually be hailed as a saint."

Khomeini was allowed to seize power in Iran and, as a result, we are now reaping the harvest of anti-American fanaticism and extremism. Khomeini unleashed the hybrid of Islam and Marxism that has spawned suicide bombers and hijackers. President Jimmy Carter, and the extremists in his administration are to blame and should be held accountable.

[F14 Pilot]

FREE IRAN

[syriacus]

Carter's good at getting the terror ball rolling.

[2banana]

Khomeini executed more people in his first year than the Shah did in 20. It is funny how all the "concerned human rights supporters" who denounced the Shah disappeared after Khomeini took power...

[Nonstatist]

There is no question whatsoever that Carter was the worst President of the 20th Century. He single-handedly put us in the situation we are in now, and continues to undermine our security , to this day. Anybody who thinks its Clinton hasnt lived long enough to know better.

[F14 Pilot]

PING!

[Diogenesis]

Factoid: Islamic terror began with Carter who dissed the Shah of Iran
when his Peacockship refused to give the DNC $$$$$$$$$$$$.

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Pres. Carter's illegal financial demands made upon the Shah of Iran
immediately before Iranian terror takeover

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Gorelick was working for Carter (at the DOE) at that time
where she thrived because of her expertise ["Destruction of Evidence", Wiley Law Publications;
the 26 page booklet for The American Bar Association titled: "Structuring the Internal Investigation
When a Corporation is Faced With Parallel Civil, Criminal and Administrative Proceedings"
and the 41 page booklet: "Effective Representation of the Corporation, Its Directors,
Officers, and Employees in Grand Jury and Agency Investigations" and
the two volume book "Federal Enforcement 1987 : Representing Corporations,
Their Officers, Directors and Employees"]

BACKGROUND of Gorelick's Expertise and Carter's Role in Initiating Islamic Terror against the USA:
"Destruction of Evidence"

Role of Pres. Carter in Illegal Financial Demands made upon Shah of Iran
which when refused directly led to Iranian terror takeover

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[SMARTY]

Like all the Vietnam war protesters made themselves scarce after the US left S. Vietnam. Never mind that the murders went on wholesale after our forces left.

[Sybeck1]

Wasn't Chrissy Matthews on his team?

[F14 Pilot]

Shah and his father killed around 2500 active commies and radical terrorists in 57 years of their reign.
BUT
Khomeini just killed 9000 Armed Forces members in less than 2 years. It is not clear how many others from different levels of Iranian society died in his hands.

[Hurricane Andrew]

Great read. The article lays out the series of events very nicely. I've read bits and pieces of the scenario before, but not in such a concise form.

[Diogenesis]

[syriacus]

Nice cartoon, diogenesis.
Talk about your l--o--n--g term legacies...

[Badeye]

I was on board the USS Independence when the hostages were finally released. I'll never, ever, forgive Carter for the way he handled this entire matter.

Jimmy Carter was simply the worst President of my lifetime. The terror war against America really began with this event, with Carter's actions telegraphing to the religious fanatics America would not fight back.

I'll never, ever forgive Carter. EVER.

[CatoRenasci]

Well, perhaps Carter is the worst. My own vote has usually been Woodrow Wilson (thanks for the Treaty of Versailles), but Carter is surely in the running way ahead of Slick Willy. Carter gave a way the Panama Canal, betrayed the Shah, fosterd the energy crisis, presided over stagflation (remember 21% interest rates! - I remember 14+% rates when I bought a house in 1985!), drew down the military, and generally positioned the US as ineffective and so guilt-ridden it could never act. A smug, self-assured, know-it-all prig who masked his Marxism with "born-again" Christianity -- a real Elmer Gantry.

[ought-six]

I agree. I despised the Clintons, but Jimmy Carter was without a doubt the most inept, the most incompetent, the most short-sighted, and quite simply, the worst president of the 20th century. He accomplished NOTHING that was a positive for America, but either created or set in motion scenarios that have resulted in disater for the United States (surrendering the Panama Canal so that now it is completely controlled by Communist China; the Muriel boat lift that brought thousands upon thousands of violent criminals to America from Cuba; and, of course, Iran, just to name a few).

[F14 Pilot]

You must meet Racebannon. He was off the coasts of Iran when the Rescuers went to save the hostages!

http://rescueattempt.tripod.com/

[Conspiracy Guy]

Good article. Carter was a total disaster both at home and internationally. I've never figured out whether he is evil or incredibly stupid. I lean toward him being stupid.

[Semper Paratus]

Not to mention that the CIA didn't have a clue as to what was brewing in Iran and believed that the Shah and SAVAK had total control over the mullahs.

[HankReardon]

Iran for years had been a great ally of America, until Carter. The history does not stop where this article stops, it continues into the Reagan administration. Saddam Hussein, sensing weakness and military disorder in Iran attacks hoping to gain valuable oil fields. After initial Iraqi gains the Iran military response drives the Iraqi military back. The now enemy state of America, Iran is on the verge of conquering Iraq and becoming immensely more powerful. What should the Reagan Administration do? Allow this to happen? America steps in and supports the Iraqi military ensuring a stalemate outcome of the 8 year war that killed and injured millions. Thanks Jimmy Carter, winner of the Nobel Peace prize. Remember this the next time a leftist says," Reagan gave Saddam those weapons in the first place." Or they throw the picture of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam in your face.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I lean towards him being evil.