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Jimmy Carter's aid to the Ayatollahs. Former Israeli envoy to Washington Yoram Ettinger gives a retrospective on former US President Jimmy Carter's policies and how they contributed to the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini.
INN ^ | Dec 30, 2024

Posted on 12/30/2024 11:55:12 AM PST by Milagros

"President Jimmy Carter strongly supported the Ayatollah regime's takeover of Iran. In 1978, Carter and his advisors concluded that the Persian Shah, America's Gulf policeman, was obsolete, and they believed Ayatollah Khomeini, who was in exile in Paris, would suit the US as he was anti-Communist and anti-Soviet."

Ettinger added, "Carter went so far as to declare—ten days before Khomeini landed in Tehran—that US intelligence determined Khomeini would be an Iranian Gandhi.
He also claimed Khomeini had no desire to spread the revolution outside Iran, would focus on tractors rather than tanks, and be a loyal envoy for the interests of the free world."
"These evaluations were the fruits of delusions of a reality that didn't match the Middle Eastern reality,"

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


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1 posted on 12/30/2024 11:55:12 AM PST by Milagros
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To: Milagros

https://thehostagerescueattemptiniran.com/evidence-jimmy-carter-abandoned-the-shah-of-iran/


2 posted on 12/30/2024 12:04:14 PM PST by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for )
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To: Milagros

I remember this well. Carter was predisposed against the Shah on human rights grounds, and naively believed he could base foreign policy on his personal sanctimonious principles. That, plus an astounding level of credulity in believing the deceptions and poses of foreign rulers, made him the worst foreign policy president in history.


3 posted on 12/30/2024 12:05:54 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Milagros

Carter, like Biden, was a failure as president.


4 posted on 12/30/2024 12:06:43 PM PST by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Yes. Carter sat around and played with his peanuts and thought of creative ways to give our Canal away.

While Khomeini consolidated power in France (where he could have been hit by our CIA I’d think) then moved back to Iran and began a revolution that sent the entire Mideast back 1000 years to Islamic fundamentalism.

My Mother worked with a beautiful Persian in the late 90s. She was very pro-western and from an educated and well off family. After the revolution she finally went back to Iran to visit some family and was never heard of or seen again. It was suspicious because she left some personal items including some fairly nice Jewelry.

I can still remember her vaguely, when I was about 14. She visited our farm a few times.


5 posted on 12/30/2024 12:23:10 PM PST by Phoenix8
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To: Milagros

“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times”


6 posted on 12/30/2024 12:24:57 PM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Milagros

Carter’s ‘Human Rights’ drive is what led to friendly governments collapsing in country-after-country, only to be replaced my far more HORRIBLE governments, often aligned with the Soviets.

He was psycho in that regard.


7 posted on 12/30/2024 12:26:43 PM PST by BobL
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To: Milagros

Without Carter, Iran wouldn’t be under the mullahs.


8 posted on 12/30/2024 12:31:13 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Milagros
"that US intelligence determined Khomeini would be an Iranian Gandhi."
So which intelligence agency wrote this assessment to curry favor with the boss?
State, CIA, who?
Some one was shoveling bull crap to the White House.
Historically speaking, it would be nice to know.
9 posted on 12/30/2024 12:36:35 PM PST by Waverunner
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To: Milagros

Carter was a walking, talking, disaster. Good riddance.


10 posted on 12/30/2024 12:41:15 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Milagros

“US intelligence determined Khomeini would be an Iranian Gandhi.”

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US intelligence, i.e. CIA, are anti-American one world government formerly fascists now currently morphed into Red Fascists. Of course they supported Khomeini.

Here’s an interesting interview, where Khomeini is under the impression the USA fosters leftism in Iran, but the truth is we, via the CIA, fostered his fascist Islam.

(Behind a paywall but, you can probably read this article via switching to reader mode on your browser)

An Interview With KHOMEINI

Oct. 7, 1979
An Interview With KHOMEINI
The New York Times Archives

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/07/archives/an-interview-with-khomeini.html


11 posted on 12/30/2024 12:42:47 PM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Phoenix8

“ While Khomeini consolidated power in France (where he could have been hit by our CIA I’d think) then moved back to Iran and began a revolution that sent the entire Mideast back 1000 years to Islamic fundamentalism.”
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That only could the CIA have taken that SOB out in France, but Carter sent the deputy commander of NATO to Iran to warn the Iranian military not to act against Khomeini. I remember watching the plane land on TV, waiting for a missile to take the plane out, which of course never occurred. How different, and how much better, history would have been if it had.


12 posted on 12/30/2024 12:43:53 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Ancesthntr

“That” should be “Not.”


13 posted on 12/30/2024 12:45:23 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Milagros

Stupid is as stupid does.


14 posted on 12/30/2024 12:47:59 PM PST by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: hinckley buzzard

Exactly. Carter came into office as the “human rights” president to “clean up” what he saw as the amoral foreign policy of Nixon and Johnson. Four years later, we had theocratic Iran.


15 posted on 12/30/2024 12:53:36 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Milagros

Carter was not a good guy.

He always sided with the greater of two evils.

He is a great example of the road to hell paved with good intentions.


16 posted on 12/30/2024 12:54:17 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: hinckley buzzard

IIRC-—THE SHAH WAS WORKING HARD TO BRING WOMEN INTO THE SCHOOLS, ETC,

CERTAINLY was supportive of letting women get modernized.,


17 posted on 12/30/2024 1:01:11 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: RaceBannon

“ that US intelligence determined Khomeini would be an Iranian Gandhi…”

Idiots.

L


18 posted on 12/30/2024 1:03:24 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Milagros

The Democrats and their Propaganda Media are desperately trying to snatch Carter’s legacy out of the garbage dump, groping for something—ANYTHING—that might lesson history’s indictment of the party of slavery, infanticide, the ku klux klan, the American gulag—and Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Lyndon Johnson.


19 posted on 12/30/2024 1:16:27 PM PST by Savage Beast (Fight! Fight! Fight! God Bless America! Trump won because good TRiUMPhed over evil.)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter%27s_engagement_with_Ruhollah_Khomeini

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Yemenite_War


20 posted on 12/30/2024 1:41:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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