[JoeFromSidney]

I'm not sure there is much we could have done for the Shah of Iran by the time the uprising took place. I attended the Armed forces Staff College in the late '60s. One of my classmates was an Army Special Forces Major who had spent a tour in the boondocks in Iran, not in Tehran. He said that it was obvious to him that the Shah was unpopular and wouldn't last, but the Embassy in Tehran was ignoring the facts. They were getting all their information from the Shah's government, rather than from people on the ground. The military attaches, likewise, were getting their information from their counterparts in the Iranian military, not from our own people in the field.

At least it didn't appear we were undermining the Shah, as it appears we were undermining Mubarak.

[parisa]

The Shah and his government were undermined every step of the way. carter et al’s perception of the Shah was animated by their leftist’s mindset that the US had installed him wrongly in 1953; that the communist mossadegh was really a “democrat” and “democratically elected” . . . . LOL! Therefore from the very beginning he came into office w/ a chip on his shoulder regarding the Shah and had scores to settle.

I remember the scenes of the Monarch and the Empress Farah Diba visiting the WH right after carter’s inauguration and the purposeful way a band of so-called student demonstrators were allowed to come within a few feet of the dignitaries on the WH lawn w/ their bullhorns and conveniently for special effect the police used large amounts of tear gas affecting everyone! What mayhem! What utter disaster IF it was any other country, any other dignitary! The scene of all the smoke and coughing and the Shah whipping away tears while the bullhorns screeched death to him and the cameras rolled on and on is unforgettable and was beamed around the world. That was carter’s first shot across the bow — his first warning that he was coming after the Shah! I don’t think the Shah had an inkling yet, although intuitively he NEVER trusted democrap presidents of the USA and was weary of them.

Won’t you remember carter’s “human rights” campaign which as the STUXNET virus was focused like a laser beam exclusively on the Shah and Iran? (Where was he in 2008???)

Have you ever wondered why that backwaters karbala-exiled turbanhead killer moved residency so abruptly to Paris, France?!! LOL!!! Why would France accept him and care and protect him while khomeini’s attacks began to draw blood and Iran began falling? Who was behind that? It goes on and on and on and on.

No, the Shah and Iran were pushed by carter and his henchmen for many reasons, and in the end it turned out to be a colossal enduring debacle for USA — though a windfall for England/EU — and hell on earth for Iran and her people.