Word: shah
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Yergin said that the Iran-Iraq War "brought us back to reality" after Americans had regarded the 1973 Arab oil embargo and the loss of Iranian oil following the Shah's fall as separate events without future implications. American "may be on the edge tonight of a third oil shock" because the Iran-Iraq war might spread throughout the Middle East...
This journalistic version of shuttle diplomacy is not unusual for Talbott, who describes his job as "looking over the tops of this week's headlines in an effort to anticipate the headlines of the future." Accordingly, he was in Iran only months before the revolution that toppled the Shah and brought the Ayatullah Khomeini to power. He visited Afghanistan in 1978, long before Soviet tanks rolled across the border...
...also been a difficulty for the President and has exacerbated doubt about him. Four minutes after meeting President Hafez Assad of Syria, Carter described him before television cameras as one of his "favorite leaders," thoroughly confusing Assad, not to mention Israel. Visiting Tehran, Carter sang the praises of the Shah, then jettisoned the Iranian leader when the King of Kings began to fall; the episode was one of the sorriest in the Administration. The President's description of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as "the most serious threat to peace since the Second World War" was another overstatement that...
...Brown's view that "our ability to move into the region has improved enormously. We had nothing five years ago, when the U.S. depended on the Shah to protect its interests." To carry out the new policy, the Joint Chiefs produced a new command: the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (RDF). It consists of 250 officers and senior NCOS at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., and 200,000 soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen who would come under their command in case of an emergency...
...avowed commitment to "human rights," Carter has shared the acquisitive and paranoid biases of his predecessors. Be it in Cuba, where he tried to create his own missile crisis over the existence of a 15-year old Soviet combat brigade, be it in Iran, where he embraced the Shah and called him a man beloved by his people, be it in the Persian Gulf, where Carter stated without a gulp America's willingness to trade lives for oil, the Carter foreign policy has been disaster, brightened only by the Camp David summit. Young men born in 1960 and 1961 know...