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08/20/2009 :: 12:22:59 AM
Parviz Irani Says:

Iranians are getting raped, hung and killed by dozen because of us faild policies

06/29/2009 :: 09:04:37 PM
Stephen E Hughes Says:

RE: Successive U.S. presidents, including Jimmy Carter, looked the other way while the shah’s C.I.A.-trained SAVAK intelligence agency repressed dissidents and their fight for freedom.

In the book “The Real Jimmy Carter,” by Steven Hayward of the American Enterprise Institute: Ayatollah Khomeini’s regime executed more people in its first year in power than the Shah’s SAVAK had allegedly killed in the previous 25 years.”
On February 1, 1979, with U.S. officials joining the welcoming committee, Ayatollah Khomeini arrived in Iran amid media fanfare. Although counter-demonstrations, some numbering up to 300,000 people, erupted in Iran, the Western press barely mentioned them.
Ramsey Clark, who served as Attorney General under President Lyndon B. Johnson, held a press conference where he reported on a trip to Iran and a Paris visit with Khomeini. He urged the US government to take no action to help the Shah so that Iran could determine its own fate. Clark played a behind the scenes role influencing members of Congress to not get involved in the crisis. Perhaps UN Ambassador Andrew Young best expressed the thinking of the left at the time when he stated that, if successful, Khomeini would eventually be hailed as a saint.
Iran’s last hope: its well-trained military could still restore order. Why did the Carter administration send: “Air Force General Robert Huyser, deputy commander of U.S. forces in Europe, to pressure Iran’s generals into giving in without a fight. ?” “Huyser directly threatened the Iranian military with a break in diplomatic relations and a cutoff of arms if they moved to support their monarch.”
The Carter Administration is why the Shah fell
“Fascism Without Swastikas”
Bordewich targeted the American press for being blissfully ignorant of Khomeini’s agenda leading up to the Iranian revolution. It was not until 1981 when Bordewich was proven correct.
Children as young as 13 were hanged from cranes, six at a time, in a barbaric two-month purge of Iran’s prisons on the direct orders of Ayatollah Khomeini, reported in a book by his former deputy.
More than 30,000 political prisoners were executed in the 1988 massacre - a far larger number than previously suspected. Secret documents smuggled out of Iran reveal that, because of the large numbers of necks to be broken, prisoners were loaded onto forklift trucks in groups of six and hanged from cranes in half-hourly intervals.
Gruesome details are contained in the memoirs of Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, The Memoirs of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, one of the founders of the Islamic regime. He was once considered Khomeini’s anointed successor, but was deposed for his outspokenness.
.Remember Carter’s human rights program, where he demanded the Shah of Iran step down and turn over power to the Ayatollah Khomeini? Carter had the U.S. Pentagon tell the Shah’s top military commanders about 150 of them to acquiesce to the Ayatollah and not fight him.

Tehran’s police officers were slaughtered. At least 1,200 Imperial Army officers, who had been instructed by General Huyser not to resist the revolution, were put to death.

“The Shah’s military listened to Carter. All of them were murdered in one of the Ayatollah’s first acts.
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Peter Eisner is half wet he should do more research

06/24/2009 :: 11:03:42 AM
Ron Says:

Fascinating background that just shows how quickly we forget history even when it’s so relevant to important things going on around us.

–Ron