Word: shah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the legend, two brothers. Sharyar and Shah Zaman, who reign over adjoining kingdoms, discover their wives infidelity and vow that, in retaliation, each will rape a virgin every night and have her killed in the morning. Sharyar's kingdom soon deteriorates as parents flee the country with their daughters. At last, Scheherazade, a local visor's eldest daughter, announces to her father that she has a plan to end the King's murders and he, therefore, must present her to him that night as the virgin...
Past may be prologue but it is not destiny. The central fallacy of the metaphor mongers is to assume-against history-that history repeats itself; to assume that superficially similar conditions produce identical development. Consider Iran. Ever since the fall of the Shah we have been waiting for other Irans to happen (for the other Shah to drop, as it were). There have been a variety of candidates, from Saudi Arabia to Mexico, none of which has panned out. The Great White Hope of the theory was Sadat's Egypt. Here was another autocratic, modernizing, pro-Western leader, arrogantly...
...because that tribe had been their traditional enemy. And fundamentalist Christians condemned the Dodge Demon. A few of the pitfalls are obvious. Royalty, for example, sometimes can be a profitable quality to evoke (Monarch, Grand Marquis, Crown Victoria), but there will probably never be an automobile called the Chevy Shah...
...Tehran is taken over, Americans are bewildered. What does the Ayatullah want? The U.S. Government sends envoys to find out what token or signal or symbolic gesture might satisfy Iran. It is impossible to believe that the Ayatullah wants exactly what he says he wants: the head of the Shah. Things are not done that way any more in the West (even the Soviet bloc has now taken to pensioning off deposed leaders). It took a long time for Americans to get the message...
...authorized some major U.S. arms manufacturers to continue sales of military equipment to Iran covertly. This, in turn, encouraged private arms dealers to continue supplying Iran. All official cooperation with Iran ended when the embassy in Tehran was seized. Carter impounded $300 million worth of spare parts that the Shah had paid for, and ordered a complete boycott of American trade with Iran...