Human Rights, Imperialism, and Corruption in US Foreign Policy by Ilia Xypolia

Author:Ilia Xypolia
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9783030998158
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Iran

When Patt Derian got appointed, in 1977, the human policy “got a lot of pushback”. Certain countries in other parts of the world were essentially off limits. Iran, for one.194 Patt Derian admitted that during the Kissinger time, “there was more or less an explicit order” […] “not to report anything bad about the Shah”.195

Iran, during the Shah period, was one of the countries where there were constant battles over the human rights reports, especially during the first years of the ACRs. Hill remembers the country director for Iran saying to him that “Henry Kissinger is not going to be happy about criticizing his friend the Shah of Iran”. However, Hill replied that it was not up to the Secretary of State to make that call. Hill recalls that “the final version of the Iran report stated that there were credible reports that the Savak, Iran’s secret police, had tortured and abused political prisoners”.196

Moncrieff J. Spear, an FSO, criticised the human rights approach citing the case of Iran. The Human Rights Bureau was clashing with other geographical desks that were pressing to take into account other security interests in reporting human rights abuses in certain countries. The case of Iran is “perhaps the most graphic case”, because “the criticism of the Shah’s policies went a long way toward demoralizing the Iranian Government”.197 Spear argues that the negative human rights reporting of the Shah’s regime in the ACR on Iran “expedited its overthrow and the advent to power of the Khomeini regime, whose human rights record left even more to be desired”.198

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