Posted on 12/10/2002 10:31:57 AM PST by GeneD
A group of exiled Iranians demonstrated in Oslo on Tuesday against both Nobel Prize winner Jimmy Carter and the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
The group of around 40 people shouted "Shame on the Nobel Committee" and "Shame on Carter" as they demonstrated outside Norway's National Theater. The theater is located near the Oslo City Hall, where Carter was awarded the Peace Prize in a traditional annual ceremony.
The demonstrators claimed that both the US and Jimmy Carter, as a former US president, share responsibility for the revolution in Iran in 1979 that unseated the shah and allowed the Ayatollah Khomeini to seize power.
What's this? Iranians upset that the Shah was unseated? What was the meaning of all that grafitti we saw in the '70s that said "Down with the Shah?" I thought Iranians wanted the Shah deposed and that they ALL considered the U.S. to be the "great satan."
Sounds like there are quite a few Iranians who aren't too enthralled with what their own gubmint has become.
Sounds like that and that they'd rather have a shah than an ayatollah.
Personally, I would sooner live in a cardboard box on the street than in a Jimmah Carter-built house.
"The demonstrators claimed that both the US and Jimmy Carter, as a former US president, share responsibility for the revolution in Iran in 1979 that unseated the shah and allowed the Ayatollah Khomeini to seize power."
Actually that act by itself opened a can of worms on the entire world.
Iran under the Shah had real economic development as the country's number one mission. Under the Ayatollah Khomeini, the country's resources were wasted on exporting Islamic fanaticism world wide. The Saudis were put to shame; hence, they started to use their billions of petrodollars to export Islamic hate/fundamentalism! The rest is history. Islamic terrors all over the world financed by Iran, and Saudi Arabia. Millions of innocent lives wre lost to that Islamic movements. 2 millions Christians were killed in the name of Islam in Sudan alone. Thanks Mr. Carter, may your boney a$$ burn in hell.
"And there aren't 200 police officers out there busting heads? Damn, where's Fidel when I need him?"
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