Word: shah
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Discussing Iran, Kennedy took part of the credit for the proposal of an international commission to investigate the reign of the deposed Shah of Iran. Kennedy said the Carter administration "stubbornly resisted this solution," a statement that provoked vehement reactions from Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance on Wednesday...
...candidates clashed on several specific issues, including the question of who has or has not suported the proposed international investigatory commission on the deposed Shah that Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr has said would facilitate the release of the 50 American hostages. But the two-day exchange demonstrated that both men are emphasizing their campaigns in the fortnight preceding the New Hampshire primary, neglecting clear discussions of foreign and domestic affairs...
Both men agreed that Kennedy benefited from the week of charges and counter charges. "Kennedy has climbed a long way back since his statement on the Shah," Nacht said, adding, "People believe more than before that Carter is playing politics with the Iran and Afghanistan situations...
Bani-Sadr also repeated the demand that the United States acknowledge past "crimes" in Iran during the Shah's reign. "Whether and when the American hostages would be released depends on the U.S. attitude," he said...
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...