Middle Eastern Conflict Quotes
The Shah of Iran was one of the worst violators of human rights in the world. His secret security service were brutal thugs who murdered and tortured with impunity. Carter however in most other instances made human rights a centerpiece of his foreign policy. In Iran he overlooked the human rights abuses as the United States needed the Iranian oil. When the Iranians finally revolted against the Shah, they resented Carter and the United States for allowing the Shah to operate his empire with no regard for civil rights while the U. S. continued to preach about human rights. When the Iranians established their revolutionary government, they got the worst of all worlds. Iran became a fundamentalist theocracy, had their economy deteriorate despite their oil wealth, and the Human Rights violations of the Revolutionary Government were worse than the terrible record of the Shah.
