Article: Mission to Tehran.

Mission to Tehran.

Bruce Huyser.Harper & Row, $20.95. Air Force General Robert "Butch' Huyser, is the man Carter dispatched to Tehran in 1979 as part of his effort to forestall the demise of the shah. Mission to Tehran is Huyser's dramatic recounting of how that undertaking was doomed to failure, not least by an administration in Washington divided on policy and preoccupied with other foreign policy issues.

The general's mandate, whichwas provided in writing only with reluctance, seemed clear enough at the outset: to encourage Iran's military leadership to work together in support of the last civilian government under the shah, that of Shahpur Bakhtiar. ...

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