IRAN: Baiting the U.S.

With American help

Carter is vainly trying to intimidate nation yearning for martyrdom. We prefer to ride donkeys, live in dire misery, but never again to become enslaved under U.S. domination." So said Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, speaking from the balcony of his home north of Tehran and, as usual, fulminating against America. He was not the only one. In Iran last week everyone, it seemed, had it in for the U.S. Some 500 delegates from 50 countries met in the capital for the express purpose of castigating "U.S. interventions in Iran." Among them...

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