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In an “audience” granted to a number of anti-Shah intellectuals just weeks after seizing power, Ayatollah Khomeini said that the regime he planned to install in Iran would have one guideline: “Doing the opposite of what the cursed Shah did.” For the past four decades he and his successors have remained faithful to that promise and have taken double care to prove that.
The Shah wanted to keep Iran out of war and military conflict and succeeded in doing so for more than three decades, at times by taking painful decisions. Khomeini and his successor led Iran into an eight-year long war with Iraq plus a series of military involvements in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Afghanistan.
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Diplomacy Remains the Only Viable Path to Improve Human Rights in Iran
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Can Iran and America Escape the Cycle of Hatred?
Most Americans view Iran as a wild-eyed fanatic Muslim country out to spread terror throughout the Middle East, and with a deep hatred for the United States. The truth, however, is a bit more complicated.
Most Americans view Iran as a wild-eyed fanatic Muslim country out to spread terror throughout the Middle East, and with a deep hatred for the United States. The truth however is a bit more complicated. With the continuing dysfunctional relationship between two nation-states that in other circumstances would be close allies, perhaps a look into the history between the two countries is worth a look and will reveal a way forward for them to find common ground.