Among Iranians

The most popular tweet this last week
has been 'The Islamic Republic was born
with Carter, let it end with Carter's death.'.

Whilst I might wish The Islamic Republic
to be brought to an end,
I doubt that any winding up of it 
would leave Iran at peace until a long time after.

Carter was not the cause of the Islamic Republic,
he was the inheritor of a failing US foreign policy
towards Iran, where failure seemed like the only option.

Carter was one of many US presidents since WW2
who, when they could change the home country
for the better, would so - if only for the short term.

US foreign policy is extremely hard to direct,
for the betterment of the peoples in troubled lands
where rulers like The Shah of Iran kept themselves
in power with arms sold them by the USA, and UK.

If Carter had backed the Iranian people,
and not The Shah, how would he have done it?
Which sect of Islam would Carter's USA have backed,
before he changed tactics and was forced to change sides?