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The Trump visit to the Gulf showed no understanding of the invaluable asset that support for human rights represents for the United States.

President Jimmy Carter, seeking reelection in 1980 ... Prior to the late 1970s, Iran was ruled by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a constitutional monarch who pursued rapid modernization, including ...

1977 — Jimmy Carter welcomes Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran, to Washington, carrying on a strategic relationship that goes back several administrations. The scene in Washington is ...

At 100 years old, Jimmy Carter was the longest living president ... And when he felt that providing refuge to the Shah of Iran was the morally right thing to do, it created a backlash with ...

Carter honored at the Capitol ... to sweep him out of the White House. The Iran hostage crisis: In October 1979, the United States let the Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi — who had been overthrown ...