{"id":8544,"date":"2019-12-31T16:16:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T15:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=8544"},"modified":"2019-12-31T18:27:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T17:27:49","slug":"normality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=8544","title":{"rendered":"Normality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2019\/12\/chase-bank-iran-shah-jimmy-carter-trump-human-rights.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Over the weekend, the <em>New York\u00a0Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/29\/world\/middleeast\/shah-iran-chase-papers.html\">revealed<\/a> the central role that Chase Manhattan Bank played in persuading the Carter administration to let the deposed Shah of Iran into the United States, an action that triggered the Iran hostage crisis. Drawing on the newly unsealed papers of Chase\u2019s former chairman David Rockefeller, the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em> reconstructed a \u201csecret history\u201d of the bank\u2019s \u201cProject Eagle\u201d \u2014 a scheme for securing the Iranian dictator (and extremely valued Chase customer) Mohammad Reza Pahlavi asylum in the United States, promoting an Iranian counterrevolution that would restore Pahlavi\u2019s allies to power and prolonging<em>\u00a0<\/em>the Iran hostage crisis so as to increase Ronald Reagan\u2019s prospects for winning the 1980 election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/intelligencer\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/ck4sz0mym002m3e5pb2p2kw7f@published\" data-word-count=\"30\">Yet the most shocking detail in the <em>Times<\/em> report \u2014 or, more precisely, the one that best illustrates the alarming <em>normality<\/em> of Trump\u2019s illiberal foreign policy \u2014 may be this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote\" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/intelligencer\/_components\/blockquote\/instances\/ck4sz1s6t003a3e5pp8j35r22@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-word-count=\"94\"><p>Over lunch at the Knickerbocker Club in New York, Mr. Carter\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1979\/12\/08\/archives\/shah-says-that-us-aided-in-overthrow-memoirs-say-an-american.html\">special envoy to Tehran, Gen. Robert E. Huyser<\/a>, told the Project Eagle team that he had urged Iran\u2019s top military leaders to kill as many demonstrators as necessary to keep the shah in power.<\/p>\n<p>If shooting over the heads of demonstrators failed to disperse them, \u201cmove to focusing on the chests,\u201d General Huyser said he told the Iranian generals, according to minutes of the lunch. \u201cI got stern and noisy with the military,\u201d he added, but in the end, the top general was \u201cgutless.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Magazine: Over the weekend, the New York\u00a0Times revealed the central role that Chase Manhattan Bank played in persuading the Carter administration to let the deposed Shah of Iran into the United States, an action that triggered the Iran &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=8544\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}