Word: shah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly four years now the world has suffered from the same kind of indiscriminate musings of Jimmy Carter, whether on having neighborhoods of "ethnic purity," or providing the Palestinians a "homeland," or declaring that his friendship with the Shah of Iran was "irreplaceable." These fellows who come out of the movie business or peanut warehouses-amateurs, if you will-naturally carry a lot of original ideas of how to run the world. Like all people, they are products of their environment, harboring folklore from parents, favorite uncles, teachers, and books they have read. Some of it is fresh and good...
Shortly before noon on the morning of July 22, the sort of day when Washingtonians go Southern and fan themselves and sigh, Ali Akbar Tabatabai, late of the Shah's employ, strode to answer the bell of his contemporary rustic two-story home and found Iran standing in the doorway. You may imagine his surprise. Who would have thought to find Iran in such a place; in tasteful suburban Bethesda, Md., no less; dressed up as a postman, of all things; with a gun in its hand to boot? But there it was, large as death for Mr. Tabatabai...
...mean you have dropped your claim to the Shah's wealth...
...wealth the Shah plundered from Iran is ours without any shadow of doubt. According to the laws in force under the Pahlavi regime, the royal family as well as the Shah had no right to engage in business. And all transactions they made were laced with payoffs, coercion and illegal influence games...
...managers seemed to be chosen for their tailoring and the virile timbre of their voices rather than for their administrative skills or financial savvy. Rockefeller appeared to be off frequently, polishing his reputation as a world statesman by visiting Yugoslavia's late President Josip Broz Tito or the Shah of Iran...