Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Isham says he will always make time to work in social organizations and may use his experience as an Anthropology concentrator to work in a foreign aid service
...been especially good for fostering ugly and irrational anti-Iranian feelings in Americans. But a leaflet distributed in America during the revolution dispels this myth. It urges Americans not connected to the Shah's regime to spread the "message that Iranians are opposed to the interference policies of foreign governments..but not against foreign people." People of the third world bear no hostility to people of good will in this or any nation. They fight the power structure and the multinational corporations that have sadly come to represent America abroad...
...Since the imminent deportation proceedings are meant expressly as a means of exerting political pressure on a foreign government and hence are unrelated to any permanent concern over the proper enforcement of the immigration laws, they represent a classic case of bending the legal system to suit the prevailing political mood...
...government was a major factor in the maintenance of the Shah's regime. American advisors supported Savak, the dreaded secret police responsible for the torture and brutal deaths of untold numbers of Iranian citizens. The army was transformed into a brutal instrument of internal repression and a guardian of foreign interests in Iran and the Persian Gulf. What was called "economic development" in Iran during those 25 years was in reality the development of consumerism, quick profits for American and European companies, and the further exploitation and impoverishment of the bulk of the population...
...Since the action of singling out Iranian students, comprising only 20 percent of the foreign student population in the U.S., for selective harassment by Immigration constitutes what is known as suspect classification" (the casting of blanket suspicion of wrongdoing on a group classified only by race, religion, or national origin...