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Of all America’s relationships with Third World dictators, the history of U.S. ties with the shah of Iran is among the most controversial and fraught with lessons. This apparently simple morality tale, however, is much more complex than it may seem in hindsight. Furthermore, different observers have drawn contradictory conclusions from these events.
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Henry Kissinger, quoted in The Economist, February 10, 1979.
Dean Acheson, quoted in Barry Rubin, Paved With Good intentions (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980), p. 42.
Kissinger, quoted in The Economist, February 10, 1979.
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Dictatorships and Double Standards (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982), p. 26.
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Rubin, B. (1991). Too Little, Too Late: American Policy and the Shah of Iran. In: Pipes, D., Garfinkle, A. (eds) Friendly Tyrants. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21676-5_7
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