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Long time Middle East analyst Gary Sick was on Amanpour last night.
He goes in to a lot of background on Iran, the negotiation of the JCPOA, and how a lot of USians have never forgiven Iran for taking the hostages.
One thing really stuck out to me. In 1977, Carter hailed the Shah's Iran for being so stable. The revolution started bubbling only months later. Sick talks about how the US was blindsided by the revolution. That must have been another case of a government echo chamber, eager to think everything is fine, so ignoring evidence to the contrary.
The roof of the passenger terminal at the Tehran airport collapsed on December 5, 1974. The official excuse was snow load. There were a lot of Iranian students at Whatsa Matta U in the 70s, especially in the engineering program. One of the Iranian guys in my class said to me, when the roof collapsed, "Don't believe what they are saying about the terminal. That was a bomb. There is a revolution coming".
My classmate had a better grip on what was happening, in 74, then the USian top intelligence people did, three years later.
The US is a rogue nation, says fmr. White House expert on Iranmsn.com - The US is a rogue nation says fmr white house expert on iranSteve
