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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Establishing Radical Islam in Iran

Ayatollah Kjomeini’s takeover in the 1970s owes much, both to President Carter’s abandoning the Shah, and to France’s direct backing.

Read France and the Iranian Revolution in The Brussels Journal.

Key quote:

The inaction and general incompetence displayed by former US President Jimmy Carter, today an apologist for the Islamic Jihad against Israel, certainly contributed, but we mustn’t forget former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.

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Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 02/06 at 10:59 PM
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