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Strong intelligence has begun to emerge that US President Jimmy Carter attempted to demand financial favors for his political friends from the Shah of Iran. The rejection of this demand by the Shah could well have led to Pres. Carter’s resolve to remove the Iranian Emperor from office. 1 GIS. The linkage between the destruction of the Shah’s Government — directly attributable to Carter’s actions — and the Iran-Iraq war which cost millions of dead and injured on both sides, and to the subsequent rise of radical Islamist terrorism makes the new information of considerable significance. Pres. Carter’s anti-Shah feelings...

TEHRAN, Jan 21 (AFP) - Prospective Palestinian suicide bombers should not miss the opportunity of striking at the increased number of US troops in the region, a leading Iranian hardliner wrote Tuesday. In an editorial in his Keyhan newspaper, Hossein Shariatmadari reasoned that American troops were a far easier target for "martyrdom-seeking operations" than Israelis. Hundreds of young Palestinians are ready to carry out martyrdom-seeking operations... so why should they not make the most of the presence of US troops in the region to take revenge," the vocal hardliner said. "It would be easier than carrying out such operations in...

TEHRAN, Nov 28 (AFP) - A hardline Iranian newspaper called Thursday for a new front to be opened against Israel so that "Zionists" no longer feel safe anywhere in the world, just hours after twin attacks on Israeli targets in Kenya. "After the lightning success of the Intifada against the Zionists, more and more Muslim revolutionaries have reached the conclusion that we should open a front outside occupied Palestine that targets the security of the Zionists and their protectors," the Kayhan newspaper said in an editorial. "They should all be killed and expelled from the areas where they have expelled...