Word: shah
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Like many other Iranians, Kashani became politically mobilized by the Iranian Revolution. he blames the fall of the Shah on the kind "of people who think they're improving a country--with new values, liberal values--and end up ruining a country." One member of the IRC who had spoken extensively with Kashani about his views declared "he's afraid of revolutions." Dean of Students Archie C. Epps concurs, saying, "His conservativism is enforced by the fact that his family is from Iran, and is a reflection of recapturing the glory of Iran. These are conservatives whose ideas are rooted...
...place after we eliminated Diem were not necessarily any better in the long run. The Carter Administration made a similar decision about Somoza in Nicaragua, and yet again the Sandinistas are hardly an improvement, as most Nicaraguans know only too well today. The withdrawal of U.S. support from the Shah of Iran clearly came much too late, but it is far from certain that an earlier move would have enabled the U.S. to control or influence the fanatical anti-Western passions of Islamic fundamentalism...
Whatever the outcome, the Marcos legal miasma may become the lead case in an emerging area of jurisprudence that might be called deposed-dictator law. Many of the same problems arose in the effort by Iran to regain the wealth of the exiled Shah, but the hostage seizure abruptly ended any American interest in recognizing Iranian claims. As for the Haitian government's effort to recover an estimated $400 million to $800 million in the overseas assets of ex-Dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, the Reagan Administration two weeks ago promised its cooperation. But that legal effort has been moving slowly...
...come a long way from the 1970s, when it suffered through two oil shocks. The first came in 1973, when the Arabs embargoed oil in retaliation for U.S. support of Israel; the second in 1979, after the overthrow of the Shah of Iran cut off that country's supply. The shortages, even though they were never greater than 10%, enabled the oil producers to crank prices ever higher. OPEC became a nasty acronym in the West, the favorite villain of cartoonists and columnists...
...also remember the United States' dealings with the whole Middle East in recent history: support of the Shah of Iran; weak response to the Ayatullah Khomeini; condoning the Israeli invasion and subsequent slaughter in Lebanon; and recent big-stick bully tactics against a relatively impotent Libya...