Word: shah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early November, Ambassador Sullivan had become convinced that opposition leaders would have to be given a much stronger voice in Iran's affairs than the Shah was willing to consider. I could not disagree, but my basic choice was whether to give the Shah our complete backing in his crisis or to predicate support, as Sullivan increasingly seemed to prefer, on the Shah's acquiescence to suggestions from the American embassy...
...Shah's basic plan of asking one leader to assemble a coalition government seemed sound, but he was having a hard time convincing anyone of stature to serve. At the end of the year, Shahpour Bakhtiar, a Western-educated moderate, accepted the position of Prime Minister. The newly chosen leader demonstrated surprising strength and independence, immediately calling for the Shah to leave Iran, for the secret police to be disbanded, for those responsible for shooting demonstrators to be tried and for civilians to be in charge of Iran's foreign affairs...
...obvious that the Shah would have to leave the country before order could be restored. However, I agreed with him that he should do so with dignity, in accordance with his own schedule and only after a stable successor government had been established. Sullivan, however, was recommending that we oppose the plans of the Shah, insist on his immediate departure and try to form some kind of friendship or alliance with Khomeini. I rejected this recommendation because the Shah, Bakhtiar and the Iranian military leaders needed consistent American support...
...that we needed a strong and competent American representative in Tehran who would keep me informed about the military's needs. One of his responsibilities would be to strengthen the resolve of the military leaders and encourage them to remain in Iran to maintain stability even if the Shah should leave. I ordered General Robert Huyser, deputy commander of U.S. forces in Europe, to carry out this assignment...
...Iranians at one of our intelligence monitoring sites and released after several frightening days. The street mobs sometimes whipped up anti-American feelings to a fever pitch. As quietly as possible, we continued to urge the several thousand Americans remaining in Iran to leave. Before and immediately after the Shah's departure from Iran, we had left open our invitation for him to come to the U.S., but he had decided to stay in Morocco. Now we began to hear that King Hassan wanted him to leave. On March 15, King Hassan requested that we accept the Shah. Primarily...