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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (283846)8/6/2002 1:53:44 AM
From: DavesM  Respond to of 769667
 
re:"There's more history to it than that. But for our ties to the Shah, we might have had a good relationship with the Iranians"

Well, if not for American pressure, Soviet troops would have stayed in Iran (probably) till the fall of the Soviet Union. Most likely Iran, would have ended up as part of one of the Soviet Republics.