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...landing in Tehran, Waldheim immediately was subjected to humiliating abuse. Local newspapers published a year-old photograph of him kissing the hand of Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, the Shah's twin sister. Read the caption in the evening daily Kayhan: "Kurt Waldheim in his previous trip to Tehran-he and Ashraf have raised their glasses in a toast to the archtraitor Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, marking his victory in the massacre and torture of the defenseless and innocent Iranian nation," A morning newspaper, the Islamic Republic, published another old photograph of Waldheim shaking hands with the Shah, whose face was blotted...
...three hours on the morning after the Secretary-General's arrival, and were to meet twice more during the week. The session was devoted mostly to a long tirade by Ghotbzadeh against the U.S. and the U.N. He accused the U.N. of doing nothing about atrocities during the Shah's rule and of involving itself with Iran only after it was prodded by Washington over the hostages. According to a Foreign Ministry statement, Ghotbzadeh told Waldheim: "The superpowers and their satellites continue their sordid maneuvers to manipulate the U.N. machinery for their own ends...
Whatever slim hopes Waldheim had of winning the confidence of the Iranians ended dramatically that afternoon. As a gesture of sympathy, he had planned to tour a museum exhibition of atrocities that the government says were committed during the Shah's rule and to meet with 100 people who claim to have been crippled by the Shah's torturers. The visit was suddenly called off after about 1,000 unruly demonstrators massed in front of the building. Chanting "America, America, death to your dirty tricks," the crowd denounced the Secretary-General as a U.S. puppet. There also were...
...mischievous fantasy about the CIA's organizing the attack on the Sacred Mosque at Mecca, and rioters swarm like film extras against U.S. consulates from Turkey to India; in Islamabad, Pakistan, two Americans die and the embassy goes up in flames. Let the U.S. admit the deposed Shah for temporary medical treatment, and the Tehran embassy, with all occupants, becomes the property of overheated Shi'ite gunmen. But let four Soviet divisions move in to take possession of another country, and the world's response is somehow muted; the full orchestra of international outrage declines to perform...
...when old friends stop answering his calls. Japan initially responds to the crisis in Tehran by trying to buy up as much Iranian oil as possible. Mexico's President Jose Lopez Portillo gives Jimmy Carter lectures on American behavior; at a crucial moment he refuses to accept the Shah back into his country, despite earlier promises of refuge. Western Europe wants the protection of the American nuclear umbrella but parades a fastidious ambivalence about...