turn iran into a secular democratic state for many use, the hostage crisis and the showdown with the united states to isolate and sideline the new provisional government to consolidate authoritarianism pan tilt the country even further against the us and it was very machiavellian about it. prime minister bizarre gun, who was opposed to the hostage-taking recognized that the momentum was with khamenei and he resigned shortly after the embassy was seized president bonnie sadler was impeached in june 1981 and i think everyone under estimated khomeini, i think people thought that he was going to be this pacifist religious leader