[JOHNY CA$H]

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Nope. Dwight Eisenhower is much more responsible for modern day Iran than Jimmy Carter.

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The fundamentalist Shia movement wanted power. Specifically to overthrow ANY government and implement a theocracy. Their movement grew in power and the Shah angered them by implementing Western reforms and supressing these Islamo-fascist by whatever means necessary. Preceding US presidents supported the Shah helping him maintaining power. Carter withdrew support and even undermined the Shah's regime leading to the collapse of his dictatorship.

Your argument that Iran was a happy land of democracy and flowers until a CIA coup led by a circus strongman overthrew them is silly. The govt was on the brink of collapse otherwise the 3rd rate CIA coup would have failed more miserably than the Bay of Pigs. The current Iranian govt crushes Iranian reformers with torture and prison. Carters actions traded one dictatoship for a WORSE dictatorship....that sponsors world wide terrorism. The world would be a much better place if Iran was still controlled by the Shah....

And after Eisenhower we had Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, and Ford. All of these presidents had a brain and support the Shah. Carter, of couse, has no brain and he [censored] things up.

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Proof that to some, opinion will always hold more weight than facts.