From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Gary Britt wrote:
> "Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in
> message news:44d70544$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Gary Britt wrote:
>>> Laid the groundwork, he single handedly pulled the rug out
from under the
>>> Shaw and opened arms for the entrance of Khomeni (sp?) and his fascists
>>> to
>>> take over the country.
>> The Shah was fascist. You helped the Shah take action against the
>> democrats in the country thus driving the populace into a more & more
>> extreme position.
>
> Nope, and the mullah's that the imbecile Carter ushered into power as part
> of his "human rights" foreign policy were even bigger
fascists with an even
> more brutal secret police and torture and network of political/religious
> purist informers.
>

ROFLMAO. There was a very vibrant democracy movement which the US helped
the Shah & the SAVAK to crush. When that road was closed the Islamists
beckoned.



>
>>
>>> The Shaw had the largest and strongest military
>>> (strongly PRO USA) anywhere in the Middle East.
>> Who was a fascist who ruled almost entirely by the efforts of the SAVAK
>
>
> Goes triple for the Mullahs Carter put in power except unlike the Shah, they
> want nukes to use in America and they are not deterred by the threat of
> retaliation which only gets them to their 72 virgins even faster.
>

You really are truely ignorant esp of Iran's nuclear history. There are
many sources but this one will do:

http://www.payvand.com/news/03/oct/1015.html

"Iran's foray into nuclear research and development began in the mid
1960s under the auspices of the US within the framework of bilateral
agreements between the two countries. The first significant nuclear
facility built by the Shah was the Tehran Nuclear Research Center (TNRC),
founded in 1967, housed at Tehran University, and run by Atomic Energy
Organization of Iran (AEOI). This Center has always been one of Iran's
primary open nuclear research facilities. It has a safeguarded 5-megawatt
nuclear research reactor that was supplied by the US in 1967. The reactor
can produce up to 600 grams of plutonium per year in its spent fuel.

Iran signed the NPT on July 1, 1968. After the Treaty was ratified by the
Majles, it went into effect on March 5, 1970. In the language of Article IV
of the Treaty, the NPT recognized Iran's "inalienable right to develop
research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful proposes
without discrimination, and acquire equipment, materials, and scientific
and technological information." The events of the early 1970s were,
however, instrumental in shaping and accelerating the development of Iran's
nuclear program. The 1973 war between the Arab countries and Israel, and
the subsequent huge increase in the price of oil, provided the Shah's
government with considerable resources for Iran's development. At that
time, a study by the influential Stanford Research Institute concluded that
Iran would need, by the year 1990, an electrical capacity of about
20,000-megawatt.

According to declassified confidential US Government documents posted on
the Digital National Security Archive (see the article, "The US-Iran
Nuclear Dispute: Dr Mohamed El Baradei's Mission Possible to Iran," by
Drs. A. Etemad and N. Meshkati, published on July 13, 2003, in the Iran
News), in the mid-1970s, the US encouraged Iran to expand her non-oil
energy base, suggested to the Shah that Iran needed not one but SEVERAL
nuclear reactors to acquire the electrical capacity that the Stanford
Research Institute had proposed, and expressed interest in the US companies
participating in Iran's nuclear energy projects. Building these reactors,
and selling the weapons that the Shah was procuring from the US in the
1970s, were, of course, a good way for the US to recover the cost of the
oil that she was buying from Iran.

Since the Shah never read or heard an American proposal that he did not
like, he started an ambitious program for building many (presumably as many
as TWENTY THREE) nuclear reactors. Hence, his government awarded a contract
to Kraftwerk Union (a subsidiary of Siemens) of (West) Germany to construct
two Siemens 1,200-megawatt nuclear reactors at Bushehr. The work for doing
so began in 1974. In 1975, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology signed
a contract with the AEOI for providing training for the first cadre of
Iranian nuclear engineers, and the Iranian-Indian nuclear cooperation
treaty was also signed (India is now a nuclear power). In addition, the
Nuclear Technology Center at Esfahan (Isfahan) was founded in the mid-1970s
with the French assistance in order to provide training for the personnel
that would be working with the Bushehr reactors. The Esfahan Center
currently operates four small nuclear research reactors, all supplied by
China.

According to the same declassified document mentioned above, in an address
to the symposium, "The US and Iran, An Increasing Partnership,"
held in October 1977, Mr. Sydney Sober, a representative of the US State
Department, declared that the Shah's government was going to purchase EIGHT
nuclear reactors from the US for generating electricity. On July 10, 1978,
only seven months before the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the
final draft of the US-Iran Nuclear Energy Agreement was signed. The
agreement was supposed to facilitate cooperation in the field of nuclear
energy and to govern the export and transfer of equipment and material to
Iran's nuclear energy program. Iran was also to receive American technology
and help in searching for uranium deposits.

The Shah's government had also envisioned building two nuclear reactors and
a power plant in Darkhovin, on the Karoon River, south of the city of
Ahvaz. Iran signed, in 1974, a contract with the French company Framatome
to build two 950 megawatt pressurized reactors at that site. Framatome did
survey the area and began site preparation. However, construction had not
yet started when the government of Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan cancelled
the contract after the Islamic revolution in 1979. In 1992, Iran signed an
agreement with China for building the reactors in Darkhovin, but the terms
of the agreement have not yet been carried out by China. Given the
proximity of the site to the border with Iraq, it is probably not prudent
to proceed with that project at that particular site.

The Shah's government also obtained uranium materials from South Africa in
the 1970s. According to Dr. Akbar Etemad, who was the founder and first
President of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran from 1974 to 1978, the
TNRC carried out experiments in which plutonium was extracted from spent
fuel using chemical agents (see, A. Etemad, "Iran," in,
"European Non-Proliferation Policy," edited by H. Mueller, Oxford
University Press, 1987, page 9). Note that the only use for plutonium is in
a nuclear bomb. It is also believed that the Shah assembled at the TNRC a
nuclear weapon design team. Asadollah Alam, the long-time Imperial Court
Minister and the Shah's close confidant, wrote in his memoires that the
Shah had envisioned Iran having nuclear weapons.

In February 1979, when the Islamic Revolution toppled the Shah's
government, the Bushehr-1 (that is, reactor 1) was 90% complete and 60% of
its equipment had been installed, while Bushehr-2 was 50% complete. Had the
1979 Revolution not happened, the Kraftwerk Union would have continued its
work in all likelihood with the cooperation of the US corporation Bechtel
Power, which was its joint-venture partner in many power plant projects
around the world. The government of Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan then
decided that Iran did not need nuclear energy, and therefore the work at
Bushehr was halted after the victory of the Revolution in February 1979.
The German firm had left Iran earlier, anyway.

"


>> Nah, the local Iranians over threw the Shah because they were pig sick
>> of him & his brutal secret police.
>>
>
> Nope, it was Carter's withdrawal of support that allowed a small cadre of
> much worse criminals in the guise of religion take over the country and
> start a much larger torture, secret police, and purification than the Shah
> ever had.  Ruined the country's economy which was FAR MORE prosperous under
> the Shah as well.
>

Chuckle yup coz the democrats were in prison or had been tortured to death
or assassinated.

With US help/turning a blind eye.

Adam

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