HISTORY 241 Midterm: First Midterm Study Guide
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Religious leader who became supreme leader of iran after the 1979 iranian revolution and the overthrow of the shah. Changed iran from a monarchy that supported the us to an anti-western islamic theocracy. Supported hostage takers in order to maintain popular support and called the us the. Savak is reza shah"s, us/israeli backed and trained, secret police used to control the population and was one of the causes of the iranian revolution and was immediately dissolved after the revolution. Us used israel to covertly sell weapons to the iranians who were at the time under an arms embargo. Iran would funnel the money through israel to the us. Us would then put the money into a secret swiss bank account. This money would then be used to fund nicaraguan contra/anti-sandinista rebels. Under the boland amendment, direct us funding of the contras was made illegal. Reagan administration officials ignored this and continued to fund, arm and train the.
