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Unfortunately, if predictably, this line of thinking survives by the tenuous argument that the billions of dollars of arms we sold to the government of the Shah, Israel's and our training of Savak and other military personnel, 40,000 American technicians and "consultants" working for our military or private corporations on contract to the Shah, and no doubt substantial covert CIA activities as well--all of these were somehow "insufficient," and we erred in Iran only by not supporting the Shah more fully...
...revolution, some shared stories about incidents during the time of the revolution, for example, the massacre at Jaleh Square, the Rex Cinema fire, unprovoked attacks by the military and so on, some could and did pull open the shirt or pull up the pants and say "Look what SAVAK did to me." The point remains the same. Virtually everyone I met had been touched, physically and/or emotionally, in a very profound way by the brutality of SAVAK and the military under the previous regime...
...disagree that many of the SAVAK agents have been justly punished by Khomeini or that some members of the past regime were corrupt. But for Rev. Kimball to say "almost everyone had a brother or father who had been taken away or could pull up his pants leg and show burn marks and say "Look what SAVAK did to me'," is a very one-sided, general and unsupported remark for a man who was only in Iran 11 days. There are 35 million Iranians. How many did he meet? What Rev. Kimball saw was only what he was scheduled...
...also says, "SAVAK would sometimes dismember children of suspected political dissenters to gain confessions. They held some of the children aloft and proudly exhibited their own scars and stumps." This is an outrageous statement. Did he ever witness this extraordinary process? Even though he may have been exposed to certain scars and stumps on certain children, these could be the results of other unrelated incidents...
...editors with a Star of David. Read the caption: "Waldheim hand-in-hand with the executioner." The government TV station paired its pictures of Waldheim's arrival on a split screen with photos of an amputee and two dead children who the announcer said were victims of SAVAK, the Shah's secret police...