[eastforker]

My memory is kinda fuzzy about Iran in the 70's.Why didn't the US ensure that the Shah remained in power,why did the US let fundamentalist islam take over power.

[RichardW]

We stupidly elected Jimmah Carter.

[backhoe]

While those links can tell you better, I was around then- the Shah's secret police- Savak- were brutal and oppressive to dissidents inside Iran, and caused a lot of bad will to eminate from the Carter administration. The Press in the US, and indeed the world, didn't care for the Shah's authoritarian ways, either- he got lots of bad press.

The Ayatollah was portrayed ( wrongly, IMO ) as a noble Holy Man, rather than the fanatic he was.

[weikel]

Peanut brain was President. The Shah himself bore some responsibility if he had stayed in the palace and called in his army to kill the rebels he probably would have won.

[COBOL2Java]

Why didn't the US ensure that the Shah remained in power,why did the US let fundamentalist islam take over power.

Ask this loser...

[Ann Archy]

Jimmy Carter helped depose the Shah and paved the way for the Ayatollahs. MOST of not ALL this crap can be laid at Jimmy the Saint Carter's feet....Carter was the WORST President.