Word: shahs
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...reaction in Iran to the Shah's presence in the U.S. out of all proportion to reality...
...United States insulted the Iranian national honor and the Islamic revolution by giving the deposed Shah a visa. The ex-dictator represents all the pain, torture, humiliation, deprivation and repression suffered for decades by our nation. And just at a time when Iranians believed Washington at least tacitly recognized this fact, the ex-tyrant triumphantly enters New York-a malicious, outrageous, insupportable insult to all the blood that was spilled for the cause of liberation...
...people want the ex-Shah publicly tried because they want to prove to the whole world once and for all what a heinous criminal he was. It is the principle, not the man, that matters...
...easy to say that the Iranians need a scapegoat and the regime wants to muster patriotic support. You are wrong through and through. What this nation has suffered at the hands of the Shah is no less serious than what the Jews suffered at the hands of the Nazis...
...likely that the President could not extradite the Shah if he wanted...