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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite all that, says Simes, "the Soviets discovered that the situation in Iran was of great concern to the United States," and "as soon as they determined for themselves that the Shah had no chance, they immediately found that this was a terrible, corrupt, pro-American and generally horrible government." Moscow then directed much effective anti-U.S. propaganda into Iran. In the months ahead Moscow will be sharply looking for other such opportunities...
Akins advocated a mixture of toughness and sympathy toward the Saudis. "The most important effort is to bring the corruption there under control, because it is great. Extraordinary agents' fees [fees demanded by well-connected Saudis on purchases from the U.S., often suspected of being ill-concealed bribes] have to be cut out. You can point out to them that this is a main topic of conversation in the country, as indeed it is." Since corruption causes social unrest, Akins considers this so important that he believed the warning should be delivered by President Carter "or an emissary...
...Shah ("We have said we will work with the new government, but we have not said an awful lot about the guy sitting out there in Morocco"). Offer the new government technical, agricultural, industrial and educational aid. Disavow convincingly any thought of sponsoring a countercoup, still a subject of great worry to the Iranian revolutionaries. Replace U.S. Ambassador William H. Sullivan, who is thought to have been too close to the Shah. Train some of our State Department officers in Farsi "and send them over in waves. And get people over there very quickly who understand Shi'ite Islam...
...three days, the 300,000 residents of the holy city of Qum had carefully scrubbed the dusty streets and minareted buildings, making ready for the Ayatullah's return. Now, hundreds of thousands of people, chanting "God is great," lined the narrow highway from Tehran to catch a glimpse of him as his motorcade drove by. When the blue Mercedes bearing the 78-year-old Shi'ite leader neared the city, the throng burst through a cordon of police and armed Islamic guerrillas. It engulfed the car in a sea of humanity so dense that it took nearly...
...striking workers marched on the Czar's Winter Palace at St. Petersburg. Government soldiers fired on the crowd, killing and wounding hundreds. More strikes broke out. Peasant and military groups revolted. Says Tucker: "That may have been the purest case before Iran in the 20th century of a great, spontaneous, popular, antimonarchical movement spreading across the country. In that case, it failed; the monarch caught itself, staggered and survived-temporarily...