Iran Hostage Crisis with Gerald Ford

Frances

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1976 was close. A couple of things go different and we have Ford in 1977-81. How does Iran go?
 
While the Iranian revolution may still happen, the sequence of events that led to the hostage crisis may go differently.

Part of the trigger was Iranian hardliners didn't want to see an improvement of relations with the US (post revolution relations had started to improve).

If it does still happen....

There is a short story about it in Alternate Presidents. Don't want to spoil the story, but Ford's back massages and verbal mishaps play a significant part in the non-overly-unrealistic outcome.
 
While the Iranian revolution may still happen, the sequence of events that led to the hostage crisis may go differently.

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Ford would have had a considerablly different set of advisors in foreign policy. I've not time to open the books @ refresh my memory, but Z Brezenski & several others made some bad calls at critical junctures. Ford had a much deeper background in foreign policy & certainly would have avoided one or two of the series of problems that led to the edge of a Iranian/US war
 
Ford would have had a considerablly different set of advisors in foreign policy. I've not time to open the books @ refresh my memory, but Z Brezenski & several others made some bad calls at critical junctures. Ford had a much deeper background in foreign policy & certainly would have avoided one or two of the series of problems that led to the edge of a Iranian/US war
Six years after Vietnam? No. At the most, you could see retaliatory air strikes against Iranian military and governmental facilities, and even that's a stretch - it would needlessly endanger the lives of the hostages.
 
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