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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
Iran was our ally until GGG and Ty's 'rents elected Jimmy Carter president.
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The Shah was going down regardless. Once his army decided not to shoot protestors, the Peacock Throne was history. And had the election gone differently, there was nothing that Jerry Ford (who had a hard enough time sending the Marines into Cambodia to rescue a Navy crew in 1975, thanks very much Mr. Nixon - do you think military action to support a bloody despot - even a friendly one with oil - in Mesopotamia would play well in America circa 1978?) or even Ronald Reagan could have done that would have changed that.
