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...surrender the Shah to the Iranian courts in exchange for deliverance of the Ayatullah Khomeini to our courts, to be tried for kidnaping...
Although the Ayatullah Khomeini has publicly endorsed the blackmail tactics of the students and openly called for the Shah's execution, I believe that underneath this crowd-pleasing facade he no more wants the Shah dead than I do. Khomeini knows that as long as the Shah is alive and as long as he can continue to portray the U.S. as the "great Satan power," he has a cause around which he can rally his revolutionaries. Were the Shah dead, Khomeini would soon be forced to face the real problems of the country. No Khomeini doesn't want...
...Shah himself is a political cancer that has spread to the U.S. He should be removed from this country as soon as possible, for the sake of this nation's health and that of the hostages...
...Intellectual Freedom in Iran. They had an Iranian poet to read his poetry--Reza Berahini... and a mob of Iranian students delayed the lecture for hours. There was a bomb threat. The Americans were scared. The Iranians said Berahini was a CIA agent. Yet he was an anti-Shah poet--he spent years in jail. So finally, Chomsky let one of the students speak at the podium, and the student waxes hot-faced and apologizes to the crowd for the disturbance. He says he is sorry for what he has to say, and he reads a poem by Berahini which...
...admission of the ex-Shah to the U.S. is interpreted by Iranians as a politically motivated action, indicative of continued U.S. support for the deposed Shah and the forces of reaction for which he stands. It is regarded as a provocation reflecting a lack of respect for the will of the Iranian people. It comes as no surprise that it was orchestrated by characters such as Rockefeller and Kissinger, representatives of the power centers who had supported and benefitted from the Shah's regime...