Jimmy Carter's aid to the Ayatollahs. Former Israeli envoy to Washington Yoram Ettinger gives a retrospective on former US President Jimmy Carter's policies and how they contributed to the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini.

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Posted on 12/30/2024 11:55:12 AM PST by Milagros

"President Jimmy Carter strongly supported the Ayatollah regime's takeover of Iran. In 1978, Carter and his advisors concluded that the Persian Shah, America's Gulf policeman, was obsolete, and they believed Ayatollah Khomeini, who was in exile in Paris, would suit the US as he was anti-Communist and anti-Soviet."

Ettinger added, "Carter went so far as to declare—ten days before Khomeini landed in Tehran—that US intelligence determined Khomeini would be an Iranian Gandhi.
He also claimed Khomeini had no desire to spread the revolution outside Iran, would focus on tractors rather than tanks, and be a loyal envoy for the interests of the free world."
"These evaluations were the fruits of delusions of a reality that didn't match the Middle Eastern reality,"

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1 posted on 12/30/2024 11:55:12 AM PST by Milagros

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