510200, coventry direct redefining insurance mr. speaker, the president of the united states, the terrorist underworld including groups like hamas hezbollah, he islamic jihad, ui sheikh mohammed operates in remote jungles and deserts and hides in the centers of large cities. nearly five months after 911 president george w bush went on the offensive in his 2002 state of the union address, north korea has a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction. iran aggressively pursued because these weapons and exports terror, iraq continues to flaunt his hostility toward america and to support terror. states like
memory of how vulnerable iran could be at moments of weakness the latest battlefield for chemical weapons. then the iran experienced a nightmare that display of civilian victims of an iraqi poison gas attack saddam s unconscionable attacks with chemical weapons thousands suffered a horrific demise. this is the true face of a regime that very unfortunately the united states administration is supporting the west knew about the strikes and did little to stop them us intelligence may even have helped iraq it is targets the decision not to stand up to saddam hussein for his use of chemical weapons, i think was a very costly misses thank and it helped the iranian regime to have a moral upper-hand every time they iranian regime has done something egregious to its own people or in the region.
attacked. and although this time the mob eventually left, it was a harbinger of what was to come eight months later after president jimmy carter allowed the now exiled shah v. r1 to come to the us for cancer treatment. the shah had kept his sickness a secret. so some suspicion began to grow that the cancer issue is excuse. iranians did not believe the show was ill and worried that the us would return him to power i think there s a straight line that could be drawn from 1953 to 1979. the fact that the popular government of mohammad mosaddegh was toppled through a british and american crew created fears in 1979 that the us would try to do the same thing and admitting the shaw and to the us was the trigger for the revolutionaries to try to prevent that from happening by taking hostages coming up
you never faithful sees the deals on top before there shop and now my own thoughts on the past and where it leads us america s relationship with iran has been hostile and confrontational for more than four decades no matter what happens in the world, the fall of communism, the rise and fall of jihadism somehow this relationship seems destined to stay the same. why? and could it change there are two ideas that often underpinned american strategy that should be dispelled the first is that the iranian regime will collapses suddenly morphed into a pro-american ally as it was under the shah it s not that this is impossible repressive regimes are often more fragile than they seem but promising a
and one of the more troubled areas of the world. before long, that illusion of stability would be shattered in december 1978. it s throngs of protesters demanded the removal of the show and the return of rahel la khomeini five weeks later, the shy and his family fled to egypt it s a de, a abbas melania remembers, well and that day i went to see what happening in the streets. there was joined the street. people when passing around. images of fleming then they got the real thing with khomeini s return to iran, watching khomeini step off the plane and he was so mob, they actually had to scurry him off still, there was unrest the us embassy was