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lets say that in 1979 Jimmy Carter flys to Iran to meed Mohammad Reza ( last shah of iran) to discuss his upcomming medical trip to the U.S. The meeting goes well and they decide to accompany each other in a helicopter back to the Tehren airport. Unfortunately one of Khomeni's guards spots the offical seal on the helicopter, so he yells خدا بزر است ( god is great) he fires the RPG and the helecopter falls out of the sky and crashes. Both people onboard survive, upon the helicopter crashing a large gathering of people saw the helicopter crash and followed it to its crash site. The crowd sees the shah and president carter lieing on the ground, they proceed to beat them to a pulp when yet another of Khomeins guards sees the crash survivors and orders the crowd to bring them to a house where they are to be prisoners. Khomesi is imediatly told about the crash and goes on live television and tells the world that Jimmy Carter annd the shah are in his custody and are going to be tried for crimes against islam the next day. The trial comes and both are sentenced to death by hanging. A hidden reporter has a camers and is recording the trial & execution of both men, he sneaks out of iran and shos the tape to the world. The bodies of carter and the shsh are left hanging in tehran for all to see. Carters v.p Mondale is inagurated as president,carter is now a martyr so thet means mondale gets reelected in 1980 (no regan) What happens? Does america intervene to recover carter's body and for revenge against the ayatollah? what is the worlds reaction (europe, soviets)
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