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During the February revolt against the hapless government of Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar, the Kurds took advantage of the chaotic situation to rearm. They stormed army garrisons in northern Iran, seizing huge quantities of weapons. The latest outbreak apparently began over the appropriation by the army garrison in Sanandaj of a large portion of the city's flour supply, as well as the bulk of the town's bread. Feelings among the city's population, which is mostly Sunni Muslim, were already running high because the local revolutionary courts were dominated by Shi'ites loyal...
...over quickly because of the speed with which supplies would be consumed. (The danger of such war games is that even professional strategists can be overtaken by events. The book assumes, for example, that Iran, led by the Shah, would support NATO strongly.) As this history develops, open revolt among the satellite nations and within the Soviet Union splits the country into republics, but not before an ICBM destroys Birmingham, England, and a counter-strike obliterates Minsk. The realignment after the war leaves Moscow's former do main Balkanized and at peace, but Africa remains tumultuous. Depending on what...
...limitations of force, Akins went on: "We could have protected the Shah against a foreign attack as we can protect the Saudis against a foreign attack, but we are no more capable of protecting the Saudis against internal subversion than we were of protecting the Shah against revolt." If such an internal revolt came, added Akins, "it would not be leftist, it would be Muslim puritan, and we are not going to do anything with those gunboats...
...Historian Walter Laqueur warns against rigid analogies. If anything, says Laqueur, "you should compare Iran not with France, not with Russia, but with the revolutionary movements in Spain beginning in 1808 against Napoleon, where the revolt was carried out by the crowd, by the mass of people." Princeton University Political Scientist Robert C. Tucker suggests some similarity to the Russian uprising of 1905. Thousands of unarmed 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...
Bloch's battalions tell him that tax tensions run high. "Talk of tax revolt has been grossly overstated," says he, "but it probably wouldn't take too much to trigger some type of rebellion." He frets that a demagogue may catch the public fancy by thundering for reducing taxes without reducing spending...