Word: iranians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short run, than the hard facts of power. Judgments of another man's resolve can figure more than aircraft carriers. Terrorist tactics can mock stockpiled nukes. From Harvard to Georgetown to the White House situation room, the scholars and strategists see emerging from the peculiarities of the Iranian situation a new and as yet unclear dimension to the world struggle. It derives partly from the fact that the U.S. has a military equal in the world. Washington can no longer fall back on an overwhelming power margin as the ultimate persuader...
...International Institute for Strategic Studies (liss), Christoph Bertram, argues that once the American hostages have been released, the U.S. should ignore Iran, isolate it, and try to curtail its influence on the Gulf states. Many of America's allies agree. British diplomats, for instance, are convinced that the Iranian Ayatullah Khomeini's Islamic Republic in its present form will not outlive the aging leader. It is therefore vital, say the British, that the U.S. tread as lightly as possible in Iran and do nothing that would prejudice the emergence of a more moderate Islamic regime...
...problems facing the U.S. and its allies, most strategists agree on one point: nothing could do more toward building a new relationship between the West and the Islamic world than a successful conclusion of the Egyptian-Israeli "autonomy" talks. It would be an ideal first step toward defusing the Iranian crisis and reducing the pressure on America's traditional allies. Until significant progress is made on that score, they believe, there is likely to be neither much sympathy for the U.S. nor much real stability in the region. As a senior British diplomat observed last week, "A settlement...
...President has learned to be deeply grateful for the Prime Minister's strength and support. In the Iranian crisis, Thatcher has been more encouraging "from the first moment," Carter noted, than other allies. On defense, Thatcher, dubbed the "Iron Lady" by the Kremlin, led the support of Washington's proposal to modernize NATO'S arsenal with medium-range nuclear weapons, readily accepting them on British soil...
...Iranian crisis was in its seventh week and OPEC was propelling oil prices to historic heights. But in that cosmopolitan capital on the Potomac, the best and the brightest were preoccupied with a more delicate matter: the open or shut case of Zbigniew Brzezinski's fly. As it turned out, President Carter's National Security Adviser had kept his zipper up, and the Washington Post was caught with its trousers down...