Word: shah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Safa's critique about my remark, "virtually everyone had been touched by the brutality of the Shah's regime," is a valid one given the way the quotation appeared in the article. In the interview, I stated that "virtually everyone I talked with had been touched--some told of relatives who had disappeared, some talked of friends and neighbors who were shot and killed during the 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...
Reverend Kimball talks of his impression of the intensity of the Iranian people's hatred for the deposed Shah. Did he meet any of the thousands and thousands of intellectuals and ordinary Iranians who are confined to their homes and dare not open their mouths, and who are praying for the right time to come? Did he have the opportunity to meet and know the traditional bazaris (the businessmen in the town marketplaces)? How does he evaluate the intensity of this hatred then? Was his visit an organized tour where he saw only what the authorities wanted...
...aware that 99 per cent of the 60,000 Iranian students in the U.S. are the children of plumbers, mechanics, taxi drivers, masons, gardeners? They are not here on scholarship but on their fathers' income. If it is true that the Shah had squeezed the wealth out of the Iranian people for the last 37 years, how could these lower class people be so prosperous as to afford to send their children to study abroad, even visiting them every now and then and returning home with products from U.S. department stores? Does Rev. Kimball know that every Iranian student...
Reverend Kimball mentions the "oppression and brutality (that) existed under the Shah." Did he ever meet the general (leaving out names) who had gone so far as to organize a coup d'etat against the Shah, and, after being caught, was only exiled to France for a year? After this time he returned to Teheran and never stopped his bitter criticism of the Shah, holding meetings every week at his home or the home of his co-ideologist. Strangely enough, he had to leave for Paris after the Revolution. Did Rev. Kimball meet the most revered and loved Iranian lawyer...
...only does President Carter not deserve to be criticized for his remark to the Shah that "Iran is a stable island in the middle of a sea of turmoil," but he has been proven right. It is hardly a year since the Shah's departure and the whole area has gone upside down...