Tehran mural of Iran-US negotiations, fomer US embassy in Iran
A mural outside the former US embassy in Tehran, suspicious of negotiations with a warmonger power used to enforce its rule by war and collective punishment.
Some quotes from Moorhead Kennedy, senior US diplomat taken hostage in Iran, from his book "The Ayatollah in the Cathedral":
"We lack the maturity to understand another point of view, to cooperate and develop consensus. Our difficulty in growing up impairs both our view and our management of foreign affairs."
"I felt caught up in the euphoria of the Revolution, of people not only free of the oppression of the Shah, but after decades of enforced Westernization, free to be Iranians again, and to make all things new."
"A month before our release, as we began to realize that the end of our captivity was in sight and to think back on what it all meant, a Marine roommate suddenly asked: "Say, supposed we were guards and they were the hostages - would we have treated them as well as they treated us?" What we recognized was that we were probably not inherently any better than they, and as capable as anyone else, of the greatest wrongs."
"Our analyses of overseas problems are too often based on abstraction - what the problem should be, rather than what it really is. We indulge ourselves in the luxury of seeing what we want to see and denying what we do not want to see."
"Given our belief in America's God-given destiny, it was easy to assume that what was right for us was right for everyone."
"A retired teacher berated us for condoning the conduct of our captors. Barry Rosen [another of the American hostages] replied, 'We are not making excuses for them, but there is reason to think that the Iranians have had a social revolution of great profundity. It was clearly one of the most broad-range revolutions of the twentieth century.'
"Our experience was [indeed] a side product of a social revolution of 'great profundity.' It induced in a number of us an equally profound psychological revolution. Even in captivity, I had begun to wonder by what means a similar and overdue revolution might be induced in the thinking of our fellow Americans."
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Tehran mural of Iran-US negotiations, fomer US embassy in Iran
A mural outside the former US embassy in Tehran, suspicious of negotiations with a warmonger power used to enforce its rule by war and collective punishment.
Some quotes from Moorhead Kennedy, senior US diplomat taken hostage in Iran, from his book "The Ayatollah in the Cathedral":
"We lack the maturity to understand another point of view, to cooperate and develop consensus. Our difficulty in growing up impairs both our view and our management of foreign affairs."
"I felt caught up in the euphoria of the Revolution, of people not only free of the oppression of the Shah, but after decades of enforced Westernization, free to be Iranians again, and to make all things new."
"A month before our release, as we began to realize that the end of our captivity was in sight and to think back on what it all meant, a Marine roommate suddenly asked: "Say, supposed we were guards and they were the hostages - would we have treated them as well as they treated us?" What we recognized was that we were probably not inherently any better than they, and as capable as anyone else, of the greatest wrongs."
"Our analyses of overseas problems are too often based on abstraction - what the problem should be, rather than what it really is. We indulge ourselves in the luxury of seeing what we want to see and denying what we do not want to see."
"Given our belief in America's God-given destiny, it was easy to assume that what was right for us was right for everyone."
"A retired teacher berated us for condoning the conduct of our captors. Barry Rosen [another of the American hostages] replied, 'We are not making excuses for them, but there is reason to think that the Iranians have had a social revolution of great profundity. It was clearly one of the most broad-range revolutions of the twentieth century.'
"Our experience was [indeed] a side product of a social revolution of 'great profundity.' It induced in a number of us an equally profound psychological revolution. Even in captivity, I had begun to wonder by what means a similar and overdue revolution might be induced in the thinking of our fellow Americans."
Check out my albums:
---------------------------------
• Top 2%, with my best photos ever
• All my photos in Explore
• My best selling photos
• All my photos used on book covers
• My own wonders of the world
Visit me also in Facebook and Instagram
©2020 German Vogel - All rights reserved - No usage allowed in any form without the written consent of the photographer.