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...moved in Afghanistan against CIA and Zionist agents?two specters that Khomeini himself routinely invokes to justify his own actions. But the Soviet apparently got nowhere. A member of Iran's clerical establishment later said that the Ayatullah sharply told the envoy that "Brezhnev was stepping into the Shah's shoes and was heading for the same catastrophe that befell the ex-dictator. He said that the Soviets would come to grief if they remained in Afghanistan...
...Eastern nation bordering Saudi Arabia, believes the U.S. should send troops into Afghanistan. He explained the Middle East is divided into right and left wings. The right wing--Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Emerites, Kuwait, Egypt and Quatar--lost faith in the U.S. when it didn't actively support the Shah, he said. "They are afraid the same thing will happen to them," he said...
That the U.S. does not recognize the legitimacy of the Iranians' demands that the Shah be tried in his country is as violent an act on their national sovereignty as it is a violence to the sovereignty of the U.S. to have its citizens held as hostages. A magazine has recently reported that ten thousand persons are estimated to have been killed during the Shah's regime, but that a World Court would probably not consider the issue since it is not an extraordinary number of victims in Third World countries! Such perverse logic reflects the bankruptcy of a World...
February 11: On the 100th day of the Iranian hostage crisis, a crowd of 18 angry street peddlers gathers outside the American embassy in Teheran, shouting "Death to the Shah." A Los Angeles Times correspondent delivers the last of the Christmas cards to the hostages. Iranian Foreign Minister Ghotzbadeh hints the Iranians are willing to make a deal exchanging the hostages for Kissinger, former CIA director Colby...
June 5: The Shah of Iran is the surprise speaker at Harvard's Commencement. Clutching a Harvard honorary degree in his withered claw, the cancerridden ex-dictator cites the moral decline of the West as the reason for his downfall, calling for the re-instatement of ROTC at Harvard. President Bok dinies rumors that the Shah was chosen only after both Hubert Humphrey and John Wayne turned down invitations to speak...