Posted on 05/12/2017 6:50:09 PM PDT by freedom44
In 1979, after a long campaign of political pressure applied by the Carter administration in the United States, the Shah of Iran fell to the Islamic Revolution, ending a tradition of monarchic rule that had persisted in Iran for thousands of years since the rule of Cyrus the Great. The stage was set for the rise of the Ayatollah, and the establishment of a theocracy in Iran that, today, most Iranians do not even want. But what if none of that had ever happened? While a momentous departure from actual history, it is not nearly so far-fetched as it sounds. It isn't difficult to imagine that, beset by strife as the Shah was at the time, the opposition of a major world power like the United States was the final straw that brought the monarchy to an end, and it is not even clear why President Carter chose to engage in such opposition. While there were some human rights concerns taking place under the Shah, as Carter noted, these pale in comparison to the atrocities committed by the sorts of Islamic extremists that have since risen to power in Iran and found a more conducive environment in the Middle East generally. Let's see what else would have been different had Carter relented, and the Shah remained. With the Islamic Revolution never occurring, Iran under the Shah enters into the 1980's, when Ronald Reagan is elected President in the United States. Always a supporter of Iran in general and the Shah in particular, Reagan continues the close friendship that had long existed between the nations.
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Well, duh...
No kidding - Jimmuh stabbed the Shah in the back, big time.
I hope the writer isn’t learning that just now.
Remember how Jimmuh made such a BIIIIG deal about carrying his OWN luggage..?
Years later it turned out it was PROPS for the cameras —EMPTY luggage.
“The instant there were cameras, he’d start in with that, seize the empty luggage that WE carried, in addition to his REAL luggage...”
—Secret Service (said much later
Or maybe we could have not gotten involved in the ‘53 overthrow of the Iranian Prime Minister.
Yep, but Commie Carter just couldn't bear being mean to Commies.
Just a few dead Commies would have put everything right.
"Carrying my OWN luggage, SEE...?!"
Mossadegh sided with the communist and if we werent involved Iran would have become a communist nation.
>>No kidding - Jimmuh stabbed the Shah in the back, big time.
Never acknowledged the fruits of Operation Cyclone.
What a complete FRAUD he is.
Is this something new?
Carter should have sided with the Shah and we should have visited Paris to help Khomeini speed up his trip to see Allah.
We could have urged the Shah to loosen his Iron Fist enough to win greater support from his People, but good old Jimmy loved them Radical Islamic Terrorists too much for his own good.
Instead we have a Nuclear Iran. Good job Jimmy, it’s another winning accomplishment like giving away the Panama Canal.
The only way to control islam retards is by force. Duh.
>Mossadegh sided with the communist and if we werent involved Iran would have become a communist nation.
It’s easier to turn a commie than a religious retard like the islams.
Jimmy Carter inexplicably sided with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and ousted the Shah of Iran, a staunch American ally, with a phony, mostly manufactured crisis emanating from inside Jimmy Carter's mind.
Shoulda, coulda, woulda - that boat has sailed.
Can’t put that genie back in the lamp.
Carter’s luggage was empty. The Shah was in big trouble. Carter didn’t help but it wouldn’t have mattered.
“Let’s see what else would have been different had Carter relented, and the Shah remained. With the Islamic Revolution never occurring, Iran under the Shah enters into the 1980’s, when Ronald Reagan is elected President in the United States. Always a supporter of Iran in general and the Shah in particular, Reagan continues the close friendship that had long existed between the nations.”
That would have been difficult statesmanship.
The Shah was dead before Reagan became president.
This article is baloney. The Shah was not a real king, let alone a successor to the ancient Persian kings. He was a puppet dictator installed by the UK and US in a coup that overthrew a democratically elected President who defied British Petroleum. There was nothing the US could have done to keep the Shah in power, he had very few supporters among the Iranian people. It’s retarded and pointless to keep rehashing these Cold War era lies about world events.
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