Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A. The United States insulted the Iranian national honor and the Islamic revolution by giving the deposed Shah a visa. The ex-dictator represents all the pain, torture, humiliation, deprivation and repression suffered for decades by our nation. And just at a time when Iranians believed Washington at least tacitly...
By gross miscalculation or cynical design, you trigger a new revolution, and then you hide behind your customary legal nitpicking. You activated the volcano and now you expect us to help you out. We can't, unless you put right the insulting mistake you have made.
Perhaps the trickiest question about U.S. policy is whether or not the Administration should have allowed the Shah to come to New York, the act that brought about the seizure of the American embassy. This was a serious Carter mistake, believes Richard Bulliet, a member of Columbia University's...
There is also ample historical precedent, sadly enough, for the Iranian students' assault on the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Though the inviolability of the diplomatic envoy has been a principle practiced since the Middle Ages, embassies and representatives of governments have frequently been targets for protest. In 1829 a...
U.S. leverage is also weak because all commercial activity with Iran has declined since the revolution last winter brought about the nationalization of the banks and most private industry. A few years ago, the membership of the Iran-American Chamber of Commerce was a Who's Who of U.S...