Island of Stability (speech)
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island-of-stability-speech-190-150978
title:
Island of Stability (speech)
text:
"Island of Stability" is a phrase that became the namesake for a 1977 speech by American president Jimmy Carter, while he was being hosted by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi at the Niavaran Complex in the city of Tehran, Iran. It was a reflection of Iran's circumstances — regarded as a stable country and a bastion of the Western Bloc in what was otherwise an unstable Middle East under the influence of the Eastern Bloc — and the importance placed on Pahlavi's rule by the United States. Carter's speech was
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1977 speech by U.S. president Jimmy Carter
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_Stability_(speech)
date created:
2016-02-13T09:25:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T23:08:12Z
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