Trump May Be Turning Iran Into Another North Korea
The United States has a long history of bungling Iran.
On New Year’s Eve 1977, President Jimmy Carter hailed Iran as “an island of stability” and toasted the shah for the “love which your people give to you.” Just over a week later, mass protests began that eventually forced out the despised shah.
The American ambassador, William Sullivan, suggested in 1978 that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the brutal architect of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, might play a “Gandhi-like position.” Andrew Young, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, suggested in early 1979 that Khomeini would “be somewhat of a saint.”
