Tag Archives: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

The Soviet Propaganda and Terrorism Offensive Against Pinochet’s Chile

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 December 2025

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The West Needs a Strategy to Counter Iran’s “Ring of Fire”

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 April 2024

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Murder, Martyrs, and Mystery: The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 August 2023

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The Death of Al-Qaeda’s Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri: One Year On

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 July 2023

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Turkey Tries to Exploit the Latest “Blasphemy” Controversy in Sweden

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 22 January 2023

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The World Cup in Qatar and “Personal Freedom” Make the Islamic State Very Angry

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 December 2022

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Islamic State Attacks Iran and Many Iranians Ask: Did it Really?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 December 2022

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Western Self-Hatred and the Iranian Revolution

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 1 November 2022

The late Bernard Lewis recorded in his memoir, Notes on a Century: Reflections of A Middle East Historian (2012), meeting the Shah of Iran “a year before” the Islamic Revolution that felled him, thus, some time in early 1978:

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