To: Valin
Pre-Ayahtolla Iran was a pretty stable place.
9 posted on
06/28/2005 9:08:44 PM PDT by
Luddite Patent Counsel
(Theyre digging through all of your files, stealing back your best ideas.)
To: Luddite Patent Counsel
When it went, Iran fell pretty hard and pretty fast for being a pretty stable place.
16 posted on
06/28/2005 9:23:38 PM PDT by
RobinOfKingston
(Never do in private what you do not want known in public.)
To: Luddite Patent Counsel
Pre-Ayahtolla Iran was a pretty stable place. Only on the surface. It was a powder keg for years. And the Shah was a butcher in his own right. His secret police [Savak]were.
I don't know that we had many options in the middle east at the time because our policy was guided by cold war realities and the encroachment of the USSR in the region.
But don't kid yourself regarding Iranian stability under the Shah. It was an illusion for many years before 1979.
58 posted on
06/29/2005 10:27:15 AM PDT by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there.)
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