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Iran and the U.S. Re "Talking and Listening to Iran" [Feb. 23]: Those Iranians who favor better relations with the U.S. should remember that the U.S. supported the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister in 1953. The U.S. supported Saddam Hussein against Iran during the war, and they shot down an Iranian passenger plane in the Persian Gulf in 1988 killing 300 men, women and children. Iranians should never forget and forgive America. Parviz Zarrabi, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND...
...Bolívar, he thinks he is indispensable to Venezuela, an oil-rich country that has terrible internal problems, most notably a lack of durable democratic institutions and entrenched economic inequality. In fact, he was originally an army paratrooper who became famous in 1992 when he attempted to overthrow the constitutional government in a failed coup d’etat. Old habits die hard...
...imprisoned for six weeks in 1989 for allegedly spying for South Africa, and later acquitted of separate treason charges after being accused of plotting to assassinate Mugabe before the 2002 presidential election. Acquitted of treason again in 2004 following an 18-month trial for encouraging mass protests to overthrow the president...
...Walesa, Solidarity emerged from the overthrow of Communism popularly viewed as the savior of the Polish nation but proved to be much less effective as a governing party. Just four years after the Round Table talks, the once-dominant coalition led by Solidarity had fragmented and lost power to its Social Democratic opposition, some of whom had served in the Communist government. This was not due simply to the economic climate; in the first truly free elections, the movement split violently when Walesa ran for president against Tadeusz Mazowiecki, another Solidarity politician who was then prime minister...
...Kennedy also cites a “Vanity Fair” article to argue that “Israel and the U.S.” planned to overthrow Hamas. In fact, the article hardly mentions Israel. But it does record that Hamas was cut off by the U.S., European Union, Russia, and the UN when it failed “to renounce violence, recognize Israel’s right to exist, and accept the terms of all previous agreements”—not because it won an election, and not just by “Israel...