The late Shah of Iran was forced into exile by the Islamic Revolution on Jan. 16, 1979. On Feb. 1, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran from his exile in France and proceeded — as Lenin did when the Kaiser’s Germany injected him “in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus … into Russia,” to quote Churchill — to impose a medieval fanaticism on a prospering part of the West, a country of enormous natural wealth and a highly educated people. Within weeks, crowds of millions were chanting “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.” A stunned and incompetent President Jimmy Carter and his team did not know what they had allowed to happen.
Former President Richard Nixon did. I was on his very small
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