Word: support
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take some specific action of support, the House voted to cut off all military and economic aid to Iran, including $20 million in U.S. funds allocated through the U.N. Development Program. The tally...
Outside the embassy was a far wilder scene as crowds of thousands gathered to shout their support. Above the embassy gate hung a portrait of Khomeini and a loudspeaker over which a voice intoned repeatedly, "God is great" and "There is but one God." At a midnight rally Thursday about 1,000 students, aligned with the leftist Islamic Mujahedin-e Khalq (People's Crusaders), tried to stage a demonstration but found themselves confronting a group of right-wing Islamic extremists. Moderates crying "Allahu akbar!" (God is great) quickly moved in to act as a buffer between the two groups...
...stupid, vindictive old man"?their official support seemed tepid. Asked New York Times Columnist James Reston: "Where are the allies?" Where, he wondered, are the Europeans who always yearned for "collective security"? European diplomats retorted that they had backed the U.S. as well as they could and that West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in particular, had strongly supported Carter. Schmidt told colleagues: "The West must show unity. We must back the U.S." If the Europeans were restrained, it was probably because 1) it was a time for "cool professionalism," as an American diplomat...
...easy to say that the Iranians need a scapegoat and the regime wants to muster patriotic support. You are wrong through and through. What this nation has suffered at the hands of the Shah is no less serious than what the Jews suffered at the hands of the Nazis...
...stay in Iran, it made little sense to try moving the embassy to more defensible quarters. As Carter said last week: "An embassy is not a fortress. There are no embassies anywhere in the world that can long withstand the attack of a mob, if the mob has the support of the host government itself." The U.S. had already greatly reduced the number of personnel affiliated with the embassy, from about 1,500 during the Shah's reign to 73. Fewer staffers would not have been able to maintain normal relations in a country where there were still some...