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Fall of The Shah...
With television cameras focused on me as I welcomed the Shah and his wife, Farah, I tried to pretend that nothing was wrong. But that day-Nov. 15, 1977-was an augury. The tear gas had created the semblance of grief. Almost two years later, and for 14 months afterward, there would be real grief in our country because of Iran...
...listened to every proposal, no matter how preposterous, including dropping an atomic bomb on Tehran," writes Jimmy Carter of his most frustrating experience as President: trying to free the American hostages from Iran. In the concluding TIME excerpt from Keeping Faith, Carter tells of the fallen Shah's fateful visit to the U.S., the seizure of the Americans on a day "I will never forget," the tragic failure of the rescue mission in the desert and the 444-day ordeal that ended in freedom for the hostages. Carter also tells of those achievements for which he expects historians to give...
...revolutionary Iran: the late-night summons, the slow walk along bleak prison corridors, and finally the waiting firing squad. Last week the executioners' guns took aim, on the specific orders of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, at one of the founding figures of the Islamic revolution that swept away Shah Reza Pahlavi in February 1979: Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, 46, the man who sprang to international prominence as Iran's Foreign Minister during the U.S. hostage crisis. Ghotbzadeh was shot after a 26-day trial in which he was accused by the Islamic military prosecutor of plotting to overthrow the Islamic...
However, more immediate fears are predicated on what would happen if the oil supply to industrialized countries was suddenly cut off. The Arab oil embargo in 1973 and the fall of the shah in 1978 were oil shocks which, according to Yergin, could foreshadow a more rehabilitating oil stoppage. Those two events alone hiked the price of OPEC oil by four and two-and-a-half times respectively, clearly contributing to the West's high inflation and unemployment rates. Yergin predicts that a third oil shock could shake the economic systems of Western countries that have not yet learned...