December 31, 1979· EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 37771 s. 539. An act to authorize the Secretary of title, which were thereupon signed by the Law 93-198; to the Committee on the District the Interior to amend the contract for the Speaker: of Columbia. construction, operation, and maintenance of H.J. Res. 468. Joint resolution extending 3086. A letter from the Assistant Secretary the Vermejo reclamation project between the the dates for the submission of the Presi­ of State for Congressional Relations trans­ Vermejo Conservancy District, located in the dent's Budget and Economic Report. mitting notice of the State Department's in­ State of New Mexico, and the ; tention to consent to a request by the Gov­ to the Committee on the Judiciary. ernment of the Federal Republlc of Germany S. 629. An act for the rellef of Niobe Gio­ for permission to transfer certain U.S. origin vanell1 and Pierluigi Pac1n1; to the Commit­ defense articles to the Government of the tee on the Judiciary. ADJOURNMENT Netherlands, pursuant to section 3(a) of the Arms Export Control Act; to the Committee S. 659. An act for the rellef of the Black Mr. MINETA. Mr. Speaker, I move Hills Area Council of the Boy Scouts of on Foreign Affairs. America; to the Committee on the Judiciary. that the House do now adjourn. 3087. A letter from the Assistant Secretary S. 702. An act to establish alternatives to The motion was agreed to; according­ of State for Congressional Relations, trans­ criminal prosecution for certain persons ly

HOW PRESIDENT CARTER How JIMMY CARTER BETRAYED THE SHAH which were growing in significance as a BETRAYED THE SHAH (By ) &<>urce for U.S. oil imports. Iran was for 20 years the keystone of In terms of the Free World's defense America's strategy in the Middle East aru:l a strategy, Iran has long been of critical im­ HON. LARRY McDONALD major factor in the economic stab111ty of the portance. Iran and Turkey are the Middle OF Free World. But, in the two years a.nd two Eastern mexr.bers of the C.E.N.T.O. alliance for regional security. From Iran, highly so­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES months of the Carter Administration, it has ceased to be an ally and is now immersed phisticated electronic-intelligence listening Monday, December 31, 1979 in anarchy and chaos for which the U.S. posts, equipped and manned by the National President bea.rs the major responsiblllty. Not Security Agency, have monitored milltary e Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, there since the fall of the Nationalist Government activities in the . These have can be little doubt that the bizarre, in China has an America.n Administration grown to critical importance since the U.S. warped human rights policies instituted committed so damaging a betrayal of a major decided to take the Greek side after the by President Carter as the keystone of ally. Cyprus invasion and, in retaliation, Turkey his foreign policy were directly responsi­ What has happened in Iran threatens the shut down all U.S. bases and electronic posts ble fOr destabilizing the Government of entire world balance of power and the econ­ on her territory and moved so far toward an omies of the West, and it has come about accommodation with Moscow as to sign a the Shah of Iran. The President's new friendship and cooperation agreement with foreign policy was able within 2 years only because the Carter Administration al­ lowed itself to be used 1n a progra.m crafted the Soviets. to transfOrm Iran from a peaceful ally of by the Kremlin to destabilize Iran.. In the Even more important, the Shah's well­ the free world into an anarchic state words of a senior IranLa.n. diplomat in Wash­ trained and American-equipped Armed ruled by a fanatical religious extremist ington, "President Carter betrayed the Shah Forces were available to serve as the re­ through violent street mobs and secret and helped create the va.cuum that will soon gional protector of the small, sparsely popu­ star chamber courts who decree in mid­ be fiLled by Soviet-trained agents a.nd religi­ lated, but oil-rich countries along the Per­ night trials death at daybreak with no ous fanatics who hate America." sian Gulf and Arabian peninsula which have appeal. The vital importance of Iran to the Free been targets for both courtship and sub­ World is the result of a number of !.actors version by Moscow. Indeed, although there The administration's progressive de­ was some tension between Iran and Saudi stabilization of the Shah's government including: Its geographic location on the southern Arabia (based in part on the fact that has been chronicled by investigative border of the U.S.S.R. where it is the eastern they epitomize the two divisions of Islam), journalist John Rees in the weeldy gateway to the Middle East; the Iranian mllitary had already proved its magazine, the Review of the News. In Its on fields which a.re the source of be­ effectiveness in Oman where at the invita­ light of the barbaric incident now under­ tween 70 to 90 percent o! the on imported tion o! Sultan Qabus the Shah's troops way in Tehran, I strongly recommend by the countries of Western Europe, Japan, wiped out a Marxist terrorist organization this article to my colleagues: Israel, South Africa (and Rhodesia.); and and drove its stragglers back to sanctuary in

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CXXV--2374-Pa.rt 28 37772 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 3'1, 1979 the neighboring People's Democratic Re­ Shah's efforts at industrialization and mod­ sort of propaganda activities seen in West­ public of Yemen (P.D.R.Y.) . ernization were therefore viewed a.s a. direct ern countries when the authorities attempt The P.D.R.Y. has been intimately col­ threat to the Shi'ite mullahs-who easily to prosecute revolutionaries. Third, pressure laborating with the U.S.S.R. since the British rationalized this a.s an attempt by the Chris­ was applied to institute guarantees of Amer­ abandoned Aden. Its revolutionary Marxist tian countries to subvert Islam by technol­ ican-style "free assembly," that would allow Government has been on excellent terms ogy. The resulting hatred of the West led the organization of open meetings calling for the with Libya., that other revolutionary so­ Shi'ite clergy to collaborate with the Soviet overthrow of the Shah's Government. And, cialist Islamic republic, and with the Marx- Union and the Communists in Iran. fourth, "opposition tendencies" in the ruling 1st regimes in Algeria and Iraq. These coun­ The Shah particularly cut into the power Rastakhiz (Renaissance) party were encour­ tries have worked to assist Soviet maneuv­ of the Shi'ite clergy with a land-reform pro­ aged by the United States. ers in the Middle East, providing training gram in which large estates (including those IThe Shah's concessions to U.S. "human bases, arms, passports, and other logistical of the Shah and his family) were broken right's" pressure in order to obtain vital mll1- support for terrorist groups ranging from up and given to landless tenants. The com­ tary equipment were, of course, perceived as Africa and the Middle East to Europe. The pensation paid to both the secular and cleri­ weakness not only by his enemies among West German Baader-Meinhof gang, "Car­ cal landowners never made up in their view the Communists and t he mullahs, but also los the Jackal," and fact ions of the Pales­ for loss of the power they once held over among his own supporters in the Rastakhiz tine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.) have their former tenants. Thus the Shah wa.s party. The perception of weakness brought all had the use of Libyan and P .D.R.Y. fa­ seen as a man to be destroyed by the West­ about quick escalation of challenges which cilities. Members of the two chief Iranian hating Shi'ite Moslem clergy, their fanatical the Shah and his Government were unable terrorist groups, one Marxist-Leninist and followers, a.nd the Marxists and Commu­ effectively to check because of increasing the other "Islamic-Marxist," have received nists organizing among the Iranian intellec­ "human rights" pressure from President training in the P.D.R.Y., Libya., Iraq, and tuals, students, and industrial workers. Carter and his team of radicals. By the end Cuba. The Soviets realized that by destroying the of the summer of 1977, university students Mere collaboration with the Commu nists Sha.h they might gain unhindered access to and followers of the Shi'ite clergy had .begun does not make a regime immune from a their client sta.tes of Syria. and Iraq; access staging street demonstrations on the cam­ coup to install a totally controlled gang of t o t he wa.rmwater ports of the Persian Gulf; puses and in several Iranian cities. These Soviet agents. The P.D.R.Y.'s collabora­ control of the Strait of Hormuz between the were unchecked and escalated in violence. tionist Government was overthrown by a Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, through Some Tranians believe that this opposition to Soviet-controlled regime last summer, open­ which move the tankers carrying oil from the Shah was actually organized by the Cen­ ing Aden to the Warsaw Pact and Cuban Saudi Arabia., the United Arab Emirates, a.nd tral Intelligence Agency at the order of Pres­ forces as a staging area for operations in Iran; and, control of Iran's own vast energy ident Carter. The Iranian magazine Khan­ Ethiopia. The recent coup in Afghanistan, resources of oil and natural ga.s. And, of daniha, for example, carried an article in the attempted coup in Iraq, the civil war course, such a. coup would also bring benefits its issue for December 16, 1978, which said in Lebanon, the growing disorders in Turkey, to the radical Arab states which have aligned that "Imam Husa Sadr was approached to and what is happening in Iran show that an themselves with the Soviet Union-Libya, take up the leadership of a new government, all-out Soviet offensive is underway to cap­ Syria., Algeria., P .D.R.Y., and Iraq. In addition, but, because of the vigilance of the Eastern ture the entire Middle East for the Com­ a. mllitant anti-Western regime in Iran would bloc, this plan crumbled and the Imam van­ munist camp. immediately cut off oil shipments to Israel ished." With a hostile, anti-Western regime in and South Africa. Tn November 1977, the Shah and his Em­ Iran, the pressure against Saudi Arabia., Jor­ As the Shah moved to control these groups press had made a state visit to Washington, dan, the Arab Gulf countries, and Egypt who have perennially plotted revolution D.C. They and all Iranians were given a will increase dangerously. against him, to maintain his long-established clear message of the Carter Administration's That this was allowed to happen is from friendship with the J:

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Thursday, January 3, 1980 The House met at 11 :55 a.m. and was with us always, 0 Lord, and minister to Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs be called to order by the Speaker protem­ us in the depths of our souls. Amen. discharged from the further coP...sidera­ pore (Mr. MOAKLEY). tion of executive communication 3071 and that it be rereferred to the Com­ The Chaplain, Rev. James David Ford, THE JOURNAL D.D., offered the following prayer: mittee on Foreign Affairs. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there 0 Lord, our hearts are filled with has examined the Journal of the last objection to the request of the gentleman thanksgiving for Your goodness to us in day's proceedings and announces to the from Texas? the past and Your promises to us for the House his approval thereof. There was no objection. days ahead. We confess we have not al­ Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, and with­ ways done as we ought and we know that out objection, the Journal stands ap­ CLARIFICATION NEEDED OF U.S. even our best acts are not as they should proved. be. There was no objection. FOREIGN POLICY Yet, our experience teaches us, 0 (Mr. LUNGREN asked and was given Father, that You are a loving God who permission to address the House for 1 visits us with grace and deals with us REREFERRAL OF EXECUTIVE COM­ minute and to revise and extend his not according to our weaknesses. In spite MONICA TION 3071 TO COMMI'ITEE remarks.) of our faults You have made available to ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS Mr. LUNGREN. Mr. Speaker, it is ob­ us the forgiveness and reconciliation that Mr. WHITE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ vious that in Iran today the confusion of gives peace of heart, mind, and soul. Be mous consent that the Committee on voices and contradictory pronounce-

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