Word: shahs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What's more, all-too-evident ideological tendencies leave Nixon smelling of the Worst sort of moral arrogance. Summoning a strong dose of roundabout logic, he finds it necessary to justify his rather rosy conclusions about leaders like the Shah or Sadat. "We may not like authoritarian rule," he writes predictably, "but for many countries there simply is no practical alternative to their present stages" Perhaps Nixon is indeed right to suggest potential pragmatic and philosophical pitfalls which foreign policies face in trying to follow idealistic, human rights based programs. But in the process, indeed throughout the book, Nixon betrays...
...Hemen Shah '84, a citizen of India, said the restrictions "would he a deterrent. A lot of students come here with the intention of staying...
Brezhnev would do nothing to stop this slaughter-and Karmal, who was already disgruntled, began to bear a bitter grudge against the Soviet Union. Things soon went from bad to worse. The Shah had fallen in Iran. Taraki's policies seemed certain to ensure there would also be a massive Muslim insurrection in Afghanistan. Taraki's response was to slaughter any opposition within his reach. Moscow tried to persuade him that this was a recipe for disaster, he should not repeat Stalin's errors. Taraki told Moscow to mind its own business...
Ironically, Ghotbzadeh was killed not on the orders of the Shah, whom he so bitterly hated, but by his spiritual father, Khomeini, whom he so respectfully admired and assisted. What a strange destiny...
...Bahrain. The nation is an obvious target for Iranian attempts to export the Ayatullah Khomeini's Islamic revolution. One of the masterminds of the December "incident," as it is called in Bahrain, was Hadi Modaresi, a mullah who had lived in Bahrain during the rule of the Shah and fomented trouble among the Shi'ites there. After the fall of the Shah, Modaresi returned to Iran, and he has been among the principal organizers of the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain. Pro-Western Arab intelligence organizations believe that Modaresi is also head of a so-called...