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...present dangerous impasse we have reached?in our direct dealings with Iran, our vulnerability in the Persian Gulf, our overall relationship Tucker with the Soviet Union ?gives every sign of persisting under a President so far unable to make a clear break from the recent and largely discredited past. Carter should now be concentrating on establishing a credible American military presence in and around the Persian Gulf. This presence cannot be restricted to elements of naval and air power. To be credible both to the states of the region and the Soviet Union, it must be quite visible...
...also indirectly condemning the Tehran government for allowing Iranian militants to hold the American hostages for the past six months. The irony could hardly have been lost on the Iranians, who went to embarrassing lengths in an effort to establish a difference between the two embassy seizures. Touring the Persian Gulf, Iran's Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh said that the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran was "a reaction to 25 years of oppressive plunder," whereas the London incident was "a terrorist act" perpetrated by "a few mercenaries who are being employed by another government." Whom...
...with the pathological ferocity of revenge, Americans might want to administer a little of what psychologists call negative the when the time is right, something like the message that a hot stove delivers to someone who tries to sit on it. Both sides should remember, if they can, the Persian prov erb: "Blood cannot be washed away with blood." Revenge has its undeniable satisfactions. It is a primal scream that shatters glass. But revenge is not an intelligent basis for a foreign policy. This century has already fulfilled its quota of smoke and rage and survivors, gray with bomb dust...
Even more assertively, Chervonenko reiterated Moscow's forceful demand that, as a full-fledged superpower, the U.S.S.R. should have the same right as the U.S. to involve itself in any issue anywhere in the world. For example, he said, the U.S. cannot expect to lay claim to the Persian Gulf as an exclusive area of "vital interest" without being challenged. Concluded Chervonenko: "The U.S. is engaged in unrealizable efforts to stop history and to recover lost supremacy...
...laxism toward reactionary states." Ismail strengthened his country's ties with Moscow and last year signed a friendship treaty with the U.S.S.R. Soviet arms and experts poured into South Yemen, raising the specter of a Soviet-run military base near the oilfields and shipping lanes of the Persian Gulf. Ismail proved to be such a loyal friend of Moscow's that he was the only Arab head of state to endorse openly the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...