Re: Who was worst in foreign relations: Carter or G.W. Bush?
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This is true only in the most tenuous of ways and shows a complete lack of knowledge of the Iranian Revolution. The proximate cause of the hostage crisis was Carter's admission of the Shah to the U.S. for cancer treatment and his refusal to turn him over to Iran for trial and execution.
[/ QUOTE ]Taking the diplomats hostage was admittedly also a way to prevent the U.S. from overthrowing another Iranian government and installing another brutal pro-U.S. dictatorship in the direct aftermath of the revolution when things were still unstable. That's why it had public support in Iran. Maybe it worked. But still the U.S. tried to overthrow it again (after Carter was gone) by supporting Iraq's invasion of Iran in many different ways.
And no one said anything about the clerics restoring democracy. I don't know where you and Felix got that from. Certainly not my post.
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