Jimmy Carter’s Vacillating Approach in Foreign Policy Towards Iran
If you asked Jimmy Carter what his foreign policy towards Iran was, you will struggle to get an answer but three things remain clear; he wavered between different opinions hence failed to provide clear guidance to the ‘American’ Shah Mohammad Reza, he was too busy with other key policies to pay attention to Iran and finally it messed him up politically. So who is Jimmy Carter? Smith (2011) calls him one of the most religiously devout presidents who publicly professed his faith in Jesus Christ from a young age. According to McCrisken (2003), Carter rose from a peanut farmer, nuclear engineer and service to the Navy to run for the presidency as an outsider without the baggage of the Vietnam war and Watergate scandal. His only foreign policy experience was being a member of the Trilateral Commission. Moens (1991) asserts that Carter was elected president in 1976 under the banner of human rights and arms control. His was a moral presidency whereby the forceful use of the military to