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1. "Salman Rushdie takes the stand.
Salman Rushdie was face-to-face with Hadi Matar, the man on trial for trying to kill him, for the first time in two and a half years yesterday. The novelist took the stand and recounted the horrifying moments when he was stabbed 15 times onstage during a book talk at an arts festival in upstate New York in 2022....Rushdie removed his glasses, which have one darkened lens, to show the jury “what’s left” of his blind right eye.
2. Matar’s assault on Rushdie came more than thirty years after Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death. "
www.thefp.com
3. February 1st, 1979 Ayatolah Ruhollah Khomeini arrived in Tehran [the Shah had left for America for cancer treatment] stating: “I beg God to cut off the hands of all evil foreigners and all their helpers.” Summary executions began.
October 2, 1979
While Middle-East allies wanted to see a strong US, President Jimmy Carter allowed the dissolution of Iran. On this date, Crown Prince Fahd of Saudi Arabia, said to US Ambassador West in Jeddah, “Instead of pressuring the Shah into bringing his thought and actions up to date so as to pull the rug from under the Communist agitators, you let him go. Look what has happened in Iran! They have killed the cream of their society- the best brains in the military, the professions, and the civil service have all been executed or forced into exile. [And] not a word of caution to Iran from President Carter.”
4. CIA memoranda regarding Khomeini seem to have either been deliberately ignored by the Carter administration or lost in the great governmental paperwork shuffle. One memo flatly stated, “Khomeini is determined to overthrow the shah and is unlikely to accept compromise. … He has cooperated in the past with Islamic terrorist groups.”
Carter viewed Khomeini as a religious holy man in a grass-roots revolution rather than the founding father of modern terrorism. U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young said, “Khomeini will eventually be hailed as a saint.” Iran Ambassador William Sullivan, said, “Khomeini is a Gandhi-like figure.” Adviser James Bill proclaimed in a Newsweek interview in 1979 that Khomeini was not a mad mujahid, but a man of “impeccable integrity and honesty.”
5. "When the Iranian revolution came to power, with the help of Democratic President Jimmy Carter, the Ayatollah Khomeini killed more human beings (about twenty thousand) in two weeks than had been killed by the Shah during his entire thirty-eight years. Khomeini followed this by sending hundreds of thousands of Iranians to die in the Iran-Iraq war, as martyrdom was needed to resurrect the Islamic Empire."
Paul Berman, “Terror and Liberalism,” p. 108
So.......does Democrat Jimmy Carter bear responsibility for seating Khomeini in charge of Iran, and then slaughtering thousands, and in this case, maiming Salman Rushdie?
Salman Rushdie was face-to-face with Hadi Matar, the man on trial for trying to kill him, for the first time in two and a half years yesterday. The novelist took the stand and recounted the horrifying moments when he was stabbed 15 times onstage during a book talk at an arts festival in upstate New York in 2022....Rushdie removed his glasses, which have one darkened lens, to show the jury “what’s left” of his blind right eye.
2. Matar’s assault on Rushdie came more than thirty years after Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death. "
Salman Rushdie Faces His Alleged Attacker
Is the man suspected of attempting to murder the novelist a lone wolf or an agent of Iran? Jay Solomon reports from the trial of Hadi Matar.
www.thefp.com
3. February 1st, 1979 Ayatolah Ruhollah Khomeini arrived in Tehran [the Shah had left for America for cancer treatment] stating: “I beg God to cut off the hands of all evil foreigners and all their helpers.” Summary executions began.
October 2, 1979
While Middle-East allies wanted to see a strong US, President Jimmy Carter allowed the dissolution of Iran. On this date, Crown Prince Fahd of Saudi Arabia, said to US Ambassador West in Jeddah, “Instead of pressuring the Shah into bringing his thought and actions up to date so as to pull the rug from under the Communist agitators, you let him go. Look what has happened in Iran! They have killed the cream of their society- the best brains in the military, the professions, and the civil service have all been executed or forced into exile. [And] not a word of caution to Iran from President Carter.”
4. CIA memoranda regarding Khomeini seem to have either been deliberately ignored by the Carter administration or lost in the great governmental paperwork shuffle. One memo flatly stated, “Khomeini is determined to overthrow the shah and is unlikely to accept compromise. … He has cooperated in the past with Islamic terrorist groups.”
Carter viewed Khomeini as a religious holy man in a grass-roots revolution rather than the founding father of modern terrorism. U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young said, “Khomeini will eventually be hailed as a saint.” Iran Ambassador William Sullivan, said, “Khomeini is a Gandhi-like figure.” Adviser James Bill proclaimed in a Newsweek interview in 1979 that Khomeini was not a mad mujahid, but a man of “impeccable integrity and honesty.”
5. "When the Iranian revolution came to power, with the help of Democratic President Jimmy Carter, the Ayatollah Khomeini killed more human beings (about twenty thousand) in two weeks than had been killed by the Shah during his entire thirty-eight years. Khomeini followed this by sending hundreds of thousands of Iranians to die in the Iran-Iraq war, as martyrdom was needed to resurrect the Islamic Empire."
Paul Berman, “Terror and Liberalism,” p. 108
So.......does Democrat Jimmy Carter bear responsibility for seating Khomeini in charge of Iran, and then slaughtering thousands, and in this case, maiming Salman Rushdie?
