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...Shah has broken the law of the U.S. as well. In broad daylight he had Iranian students followed and even killed in the U.S. and Europe. He threatened them, took away their money and passports, arranged to have them kicked out of universities and did everything, often with success, to deprive them of the protection of U.S. law. Can the Americans afford not to look into this...
...Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar!" The Arabic pronouncement that "God is great" sustained the Iranian revolutionaries as they marched through the streets of Tehran in demonstrations against the Shah. The invocation was heard again as students attacked the U.S. embassy, and as mobs last week marched about the captured compound, demanding death for the hostages...
...what extent was the student action-and the Ayatullah Khomeini's endorsement of it-in accordance with Islamic law? Experts differ. Zaki Badawi, Egyptian director of the Islamic Cultural Center in London, argues that "the demand for the return of the Shah to face trial in Iran is in agreement with Muslim law." Islam holds that "no one is above the law and law is supreme. If a crime is committed by a ruler, an emperor, he is as liable to punishment for it as the meanest and commonest of his subjects." As a precedent, one Cairo expert notes...
That seems too stern a view, however. After years of more or less ignoring the oppressions of the Shah, the U.S. had good reasons-including the familiar strategic and economic ones-to develop friendly relations with the new Iranian regime...
...done, if anything, to prevent it. Some experts on Iran in the academic world believe the first mistake of the Carter Administration was failing to understand the basic nature of the movement that swept the Ayatullah Khomeini into power. Following the policies of preceding administrations, Carter originally supported the Shah, seeing him as a stabilizing ally in the Persian Gulf region, and not realizing how widely he was hated by his subjects. Carter first thought the Shah could suppress the mounting demonstrations, then, when events got totally out of hand, abandoned him to his fate. The Shah has told friends...