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Carter Sold Out Iran 1977-1978
IranianVoice.org ^ | Chuck Morse

Posted on 05/27/2004 5:02:49 AM PDT by 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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: California; US: Georgia; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1979; carter; clergy; democrats; farah; hostage; iran; islam; jimmycarter; revolution; shah; students; terrorism; us
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To: F14 Pilot

Thanks for the ping!


41 posted on 05/27/2004 6:36:00 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: CatoRenasci; Conspiracy Guy

For sure Wilson is one, but the list is so long we don't have room here. All the really bad presidents (Wilson, FDR, Johnson, et al) had really bad (evil) "advisors" usually at the cabinet level, though not always, who steered the president in policy decisions.

We hated the Carter years, but of course, we are technically still in them. We are also still in the Woodrow Wilson years and the FDR years too. Hoping a praying for a turnaround, but it won't happen until way more patriotic Americans are turned around (educated).

Read, folks, and tell your friends and family to read as well. You will have to search out sources of the truth though, because it sure as heck isn't going to be presented on the NBC Nightly Diatribe, or anywhere else in the managed media.


42 posted on 05/27/2004 6:51:09 AM PDT by Designer (Sysiphus Sr. to Junior; "It was uphill, all the way, both ways!")
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To: Conspiracy Guy

I agree. Unfortunately, President Ford was a victim of the Watergate time. It did not matter what he did, he still had the Watergate and Nixon albatross around his neck.He was getting his act together, but Americans thought differently and gave it to Carter because as many Carter voters told me, he (Carter) would be a fresh breeze. Some breeze Carter turned out to be, he breezed our country toward weakness and vacillation. It took a strong leader like Reagan to make America proud again.


43 posted on 05/27/2004 6:51:42 AM PDT by SmithPatterson
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To: Alberta's Child

The 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran would never have happened without the kind of track record we had in that country over the previous 25 years.

Although the overthrow of Mossadegh (Kermit Roosevelt, the CIA and British MI6) and the restoration of the Shah to the Peacock throne did cause widespread and lingering resentment of the US, the Shah was his own worse enemy in terms of sowing the seeds of revolution. Mohammed Mossadegh's desire to nationalize oil and his associations with the Communists (Tudeh party) may have led to a different kind of revolution.

Historically, you can go back to 1921 and the British-backed military coup d'état led by Persian Cossacks Brigade officer Reza Khan, who in April 1926 took the crown for himself as His Imperial Majesty Reza Shah Pahlavi, beginning the so-called Pahlavi Dynasty. His rule brought a modernization of the political and social systems and a substantial reduction in the power of the clergy and tribal leaders. However along with the reforms came increasing repression and social unrest. These are where the real seeds of the 1979 revolution came from. The mullahs were always at odds with the Shah and they probably would have challenged Mossadegh's government as well.

44 posted on 05/27/2004 6:57:01 AM PDT by kabar
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To: SmithPatterson

The late Shah of Iran helped Gerald Ford, financially, to continue the presidential campaign and Carter took revenge!


45 posted on 05/27/2004 6:57:01 AM PDT by F14 Pilot (John ''Fedayeen" sKerry - the Mullahs' regime candidate)
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To: kabar

YOU ARE SO INFORMATIVE!


46 posted on 05/27/2004 6:58:47 AM PDT by F14 Pilot (John ''Fedayeen" sKerry - the Mullahs' regime candidate)
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To: F14 Pilot

Carter was the worst President IMHO. A friend of our family was in Iran on Government business -- formerly from there and he barely escaped when the Shah fell as they snuck him into the airport for the last flight out.

What Carter did with Iran is what Kerry would do with Israel and Iraq, Saudi, and the list goes on IMHO! He would replace Carter as the worst President and that speaks volumes.

Thanks for the ping!


47 posted on 05/27/2004 7:03:21 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Support Bush-Cheney '04 -- Losing is not an Option!)
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To: kabar
Mohammed Mossadegh's desire to nationalize oil and his associations with the Communists (Tudeh party) may have led to a different kind of revolution.

That's a valid point. What I find interesting is that in recent (say, post-WW2) history, associations with Communists or radical Muslims were probably not considered egregious offenses by the U.S. But the moment someone like Mohammed Mossadegh, Ho Chi Minh, or Slobodan Milosevic announces that he wants to "nationalize" a vital part of his country's economy, the U.S. will always react as if the future of civilization is at stake.

48 posted on 05/27/2004 7:04:05 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium . . . sed ego sum homo indomitus")
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To: PhiKapMom
That's why we have to RE-ELECT President Bush!
49 posted on 05/27/2004 7:05:14 AM PDT by F14 Pilot (John ''Fedayeen" sKerry - the Mullahs' regime candidate)
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To: Diogenesis

GREAT addition in #11 of Kerry's supporters


50 posted on 05/27/2004 7:05:27 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Support Bush-Cheney '04 -- Losing is not an Option!)
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To: Sybeck1
"Wasn't Chrissy Matthews on his team?"

You mean dumball, the answer is yes. Matthews was a speech writer for jimmuh dumdum Carter. Matthews also worked for Tip O'Niell, the House Speaker, as an aide.

So skip the dumball show. It's worthless.
51 posted on 05/27/2004 7:06:15 AM PDT by snooker (John Flipping Kerry, the enemy's choice in Vietnam, the enemy's choice in Iraq.)
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To: F14 Pilot

Pacifist Ignorant Democrat Pu$$y Liberal Pathetic Why Don't They Love Us Ba$tards.


52 posted on 05/27/2004 7:16:18 AM PDT by Delbert
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To: F14 Pilot

We certainly do -- my tagline says Losing is not an Option! I firmly believe that!


53 posted on 05/27/2004 7:43:25 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Support Bush-Cheney '04 -- Losing is not an Option!)
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To: F14 Pilot

This article explains a lot.


54 posted on 05/27/2004 7:43:33 AM PDT by rogueleader
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To: F14 Pilot

Free Iran.


55 posted on 05/27/2004 8:40:49 AM PDT by Vigilantcitizen
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56 posted on 05/27/2004 8:42:41 AM PDT by Mo1 (Make Michael Moore cry.... DONATE MONTHLY!!!)
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To: F14 Pilot
This entire stinking Islamic extremest mess started with idiot Carter going to bat for Ayatollah Khomeini...... whose success inspired the Saudis to propagate Wahabbism in rivalry for top Jihad spreader and funder in the world.
57 posted on 05/27/2004 8:44:43 AM PDT by dennisw ("Allah FUBAR!")
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To: Ozone34

Something like that.


58 posted on 05/27/2004 9:10:45 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Proudly not proofreading since Jan 1954.)
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To: Designer

The average American thinks that whoever is in office now, is to blame for everything that is wrong.


59 posted on 05/27/2004 9:13:26 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Proudly not proofreading since Jan 1954.)
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To: SmithPatterson

I lost a lot of friends due to my stand for Ford against Carter. They won the election and America lost.


60 posted on 05/27/2004 9:14:45 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Proudly not proofreading since Jan 1954.)
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