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PERSIAN GULF. Poor intelligence and diplomatic shortsightedness have trapped the U.S. in an increasingly difficult position in Iran. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi could fall any hour, yet Carter has found no course but to continue supporting him, at least publicly. The fall of the Shah, which many now predict, would change the equations of power, from Egypt and Ethiopia all the way east to Pakistan. The helplessness of the U.S. to shape events in Iran is beginning to sap Saudi Arabia's confidence in the ability of the U.S. to protect the region from Soviet penetration, a hazard that...
...Shah left Tehran yesterday for a two-day vacation in Jajroud, a ski resort approximately 40 miles east of the capital city...
Meanwhile, Ayatollah Khomeini, the Shah's leading opponent, said yesterday the Shah and his family should be imprisoned for life. "That would be the minimum, and also the return of all the property that he has confiscated from the people. The Shah and his immediate family are criminals and they have to be tried and punished according to Islamic laws," said Khomeini...
Khomeini, the spiritual leader of the dissident Iranian Shiite Moslems, was exiled from Iran by Pahlavi in 1963 after the outbreak of protests against the Shah's modernization program. He now lives in Paris...
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's national security advisor, said yesterday Carter would reiterate his support for Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who has the support of the other three leaders as well...