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...insist that it is also essential for Western officials to remain in Tehran to support Iranian moderates like Banisadr. The Italians feel that their diplomats in Iran are particularly useful because they supposedly have clout with Iranian radicals. Italy's President Alessandro Pertini supported persecuted Iranian students during the Shah's reign...
...exceedingly narrow national interest dominated by what President Eisenhower used to call "the military-industrial complex," represented in this case by the major oil companies. The projected use of force was totally inappropriate because another option remains open: an admission of past evils and a repudiation of the Shah. Carter stands on international law--but where was international law in 1953, when a CIA-engineered coup put the Shah in power? What are the rights of the hostages to the rights of Iranians that were systematically, maliciously trampled on during the Shah's tenure, so much so that Amnesty International...
Carter refuses to be honest with the Iranians, and honest to the American people, who remain ignorant not only of the details of this operation, but largely of America's complicity in the Shah's dictatorship. Guns can win votes--Gerald Ford's popularity skyrocketed after the Mayaguez incident, and John Kennedy's did also after the Bay of Pigs. But guns will not get the hostages back; they will not make America the friend of the nations that now invade our embassies; they will not make for a moral and honest foreign policy. And that is the real national...
...favors secularism, social reconstruction and economic development. To make matters worse, Iran has reportedly been inciting the Kurds in northern Iraq to rebel against Baghdad. For their part, the Iranians suspect that the current border troubles are being aggravated by Iranian exile groups, including some rebels loyal to the Shah's last Prime Minister, Shahpour Bakhtiar, who fled Iran last year and is now living in France...
...also territorial. Its focal point is a group of three small islands-Abu Musa, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb-that lie near the mouth of the Persian Gulf. These strategically placed islands have traditionally been claimed by the United Arab Emirates, but in 1971 they were seized by the Shah's forces, following Britain's military withdrawal from the gulf. Iraq has vowed to bring the islands back under Arab control, meaning Iraqi control, and on this point enjoys the support of the entire Arab world. Comments Kuwait's influential newspaper al Qabas: "As Arabs we cannot...