What a looooser and complete oddball!
When Jimmy Carter pulled the rug from under the Shah, he begin the chain of events that are still going on today.
The hostages were fortunate that none of them were murdered.
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This article was published a year and a half ago, where is the substantiation?
Carter was/is a pos and possibly our worst POTUS but he did not bring down the shah, neither did the russians.
Rent-a-crowds don't stand around after the bullets start to fly as the iranians did week after week. The shah was in power only because we put him there (A Roosevelt and a Schwarzkopf were in charge of the operation) in a US orchestrated coup of a legitimate (although too nationalist) leader. To believe that reza was the beloved leader of the people who risked death to overthrow him or to believe that the vast majority of iranians just stood by during the months that it took him to fall is the height of revisionist absurdity.
The shah was a crook and a despot with his own mini-gestapo. And he was weak; CIA documents clearly state so, describing him as being "pathologically afraid" of taking part in the coup. Roosevelt (Teddy's grandson) had to resort to using reza's own sister to shame him into action. Schwarzkopf (Norman's dad) had to meet with him secretly to persuade him. A coded phrase was used by Ike in a broadcast address to try to convince reza that the US backed him at the highest levels, and still he hesitated. Once the coup began to turn bad he fled to Italy and had to be nearly dragged back when things turned around. All this is available in de-classified CIA documents.
iranians threw reza out. They got worse than they bargained for but that doesn't change the history of it. Now this forum is full of shahistas in exile who swear that iran is America's best friend on the planet and who castigate Bush for not doing enough to help the "poor iranians" (as one such described them). Bush challenged them twice to rise and stand. So far they have not. They had the balls to face the SAVAK bullets to rid themselves of the shah. When they have had enough of the mullahs they weill do it again.
No one wants to see any people living under a tyrannical boot but iran gave this gift to themselves (and to us). It is up to them to throw it off, not the 82nd Airborne.