down on this nation and have joined hands in order to keep this good-fornothing in power so that they can carry on with their plunder [19]
You all saw how the Chinese Premier, the leader of one billion people, came to Iran to discuss the Chinese people, Communism and the nation of Iran! This villain came to Iran and met with someone who is responsible for several wholesale massacres. He flew over our dead by helicopter. They couldn't drive him through the streets because people would have raised an uproar; all hell would have been let loose. The villain was aware of all this, it is not as if he was oblivious to it; and what a large body of escorts accompanied him. They flew him over our dead and took him there (to the palace) where he and the Shah shook hands and continued with their programme of talks together in the most cheerful of spirits. He, this person, and others like him are deluding the people.[20] At
industry in 1973, had more or less retained its powerful position, whilst also showing the extent to which America and Britain were busy plundering the oil reserves of Iran.
18- In accordance with the fifteen-year contract which was concluded between Iran and the Soviet Union in 1967, Iran was to export gas to the Soviet Union via a gas pipeline which was to be constructed. The amount of gas piped was to have reached 10 billion cubic metres by 1975 meaning that the amount stipulated in the original contract would have to be doubled annually. The Soviet Union had undertaken to pay Iran a sum of 6 dollars and 6 cents in exchange for every 1,000 cubic metres of gas.
19- Carter agreed to an audience with the Crown Prince of Iran, Riza Pahlavi, in the White House, addressing whom he said: "Our friendship and alliance with Iran is one of the important bases on which our entire foreign policy depends". As Carter congratulated the Shah for October 26 (Aban 4 - the Shah's birthday) he again pledged his support for the latter. During the critical days of Aban 1357 (Oct/Nov, 1978), the National Security Council of America held a meeting after which William Sullivan was instructed to inform the Shah that the USA would give him their unlimited and unconditional support throughout the current crisis. Concerning the need to support the Shah, David Owen, the British Foreign Minister said: "True friends are those who think of each other in times of need. I believe we must make a choice, and my view is that we should back the Shahanshah ofiran. The toppling of the regime in Iran means a defeat for the ideals of human rights "! Hua Kuo-feng, the Chinese Premier, demonstrated his support for the Shah by visiting Iran during the final days of the regime, when he officially announced that he supported the Shah. Brezhnev, the Soviet Premier, also declared his country's support for the Shah and offered his congratulations to the latter for his birthday.
20- On August 29, 1978 (Shahrivar 7, 1357 AHS), just when the movement was escalating, Hua Kuo-feng, the Chinese Premier, came to Iran by invitation of the Shah on a