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Khomeini Orchestrated the 1979 Hostage Crisis Because Iranian-American Relations Were Going Too Well

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 January 2026

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This entry was posted in Iran and tagged Algerian Revolution, Anwar al-Sadat, ARAMCO, Ayatollah Khomeini, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Bruce Laingen, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, clergy, Communism, communists, Cultural Revolution, den of spies, Donald Trump, Ebrahim Asgharzadeh, Ebrahim Yazdi, EFPs, Egypt, Ettela’at, Frantz Fanon, George W. Bush, Gharbzadegi, Henry Kissinger, hezbollahi, Hichi, hizballahi, Hossein Ali Montazeri, Ibrahim Yazdi, Imam, international law, Iran, Iran hostage crisis, Iran-Contra Affair, Iran-Iraq War, IRGC, Islamic Republic, Islamic Republican Party, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Islamists, Israel, Jimmy Carter, John Brennan, Khobar Towers bombing, komitehs, Lebanon, Liberation Movement of Iran, Mehdi Bazargan, Mohammad Beheshti, Mohammad Khatami, Mohammad Mosaddeq, Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Mohsen Mirdamadi, MOIS, mostazafeen, MSFIL, Muslim Student Followers of the Imam’s Line, Muslim Students of the Imam Khomeini Line, Operation EAGLE CLAW, Palestine Liberation Organisation, PLO, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Qassem Suleimani, Rahbar-e Moazzam, Ronald Reagan, Ruhollah Khomeini, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Salman Rushdie, SALT II, Saudi Arabia, Shah, Shahriar Shafiq, Shi’a militias, Supreme Leader, terrorism, The Satanic Verses, theocracy, United States, VEVAK, Westoxification, William Sullivan, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Zionism, Zionists on January 26, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

How the Palestinians Enabled the Islamic Revolution in Iran

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 19 January 2026

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This entry was posted in Iran and tagged Abolhassan Banisadr, Abu Hassan, al-Qaeda, Albania, Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur, Ali Hassan Salameh, Ali Reza Sepasi, Amal movement, Anis Naccache, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Anthony Parsons, anti-imperialism, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, antizionism, Anwar al-Sadat, Artesh, Asadollah Alam, Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani, Ayatollah Muhammad Beheshti, Baader-Meinhof Gang, Black September, Captive Nations, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Cold War, Colonel Gaddafi, Colonel Qaddafi, Communism, Cuba, DDR, Dhofar Liberation Front, Dhofar Rebellion, disinformation, East Germany, Eastern Bloc, Enver Hoxha, espionage, FATAH, Fedayeen-e-Khalq, Fidel Castro, Force 17, Gaza War, German Democratic Republic, Grand Ayatollah Kazem Shariatmadari, Green Book, HAMAS, Hani al-Hassan, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hosayn Ruhani, Hossein Ruhani, Houthis, Husayn al-Musawi, ideology, Imad Mughniyeh, Imperial Government, Intelligence, IRA, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, Irish Republican Army, Islamic Republic Party, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Israel, Italian Red Brigades, Jalaleddin Farsi, Japanese Red Army, Jews, Jordan, KGB, Lebanese Civil War, Lebanon, Liberation Movement of Iran, Libya, LMI, Mao Zedong, Marine barracks bombing, Marxism, Marxist Mojahedeen, Marxist Mujahideen, MEK, MJTRUST/2, Mohammad Montazeri, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Mohammad Saleh Hosseini, Mojahedeen-e-Khalq, Moscow gold, MOSSAD, Mostafa Chamran, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, Munich massacre, Musa al-Sadr, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Oman, Operation WRATH OF GOD, Osama bin Laden, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinians, Pasdaran, Pasdaran-e Enghelab, Peykar, PFLP, PLO, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, radicalism, Red China, Red Mullah, Ruhollah Khomeini, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, SAVAK, Sazman-e Peykar dar Rah-e Azadi-ye Tabaqe-ye Kargar, Sepah-e Pasdaran, Shah, Shi’a Islam, Shi’ism, Siahkal incident, socialism, South Yemen, Soviet Union, STASI, terrorism, The Organisation of Combat for the Emancipation of the Working Class, The Organisation of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, totalitarianism, Tudeh Party, Usama bin Laden, Vasili Mitrokhin, veleyat-e-faqih, Vladimir Lenin, White Revolution, Yasser Arafat, Zionism on January 19, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

Trump and Venezuela: Is This “Regime Change”?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 January 2026

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This entry was posted in Foreign Policy and tagged Ansar Allah, Bay of Piglets, Canada, Cartel de Los Soles, Cartel of the Suns, cartels, Central Intelligence Agency, Chavismo, Chavistas, China, CIA, cocaine, Cold War, colonialism, Communism, corruption, cryptocurrency, Cuba, Cubazuela, Delcy Rodríguez, despotism, DGI, DI, Dirección de Inteligencia, Dirección General de Inteligencia, Donald Trump, drug wars, drugs, Edmundo González, espionage, FARC, fentanyl, Foreign Terrorist Organisations, Fox News, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, Greenland, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Honduras, Houthis, Hugo Chavez, Intelligence, invasion of Iraq, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, IRGC, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, J.D. Vance, Jack Keane, John Bolton, Juan Orlando Hernández, Kim Jong-il, Manuel Noriega, María Corina Machado, Marco Rubio, Marxism, narco-terrorism, narcotics, NATO, Nicolas Maduro, Nicolas Maduro Moros, Nobel Peace Prize, oil, Operation ABSOLUTE RESOLVE, Operation GIDEON, Panama, Proconsul, propaganda, public diplomacy, Qassem Sulaymani, Qassem Suleimani, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Russia, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, SEBIN, secret police, Sinaloa Cartel, socialism, Specially Designated Global Terrorist, spies, Syria, TdA, terrorism, Tren de Aragua, Venezuela, Victor Manuel Rocha, Vladimir Putin, War on Terror, weapons of mass destructions, WMD, Xi Jinping, Yemen on January 6, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

Soviet Strategy and the Downfall of Salvador Allende

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 December 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Alexei Kosygin, Andrés Allende, Andrés Pascal Allende, Angola, Augusto Pinochet, Bernard Lewis, Bolivia, Cambridge spies, Carlos Altamirano, Central Intelligence Agency, Chamber of Deputies, Che Guevara, Chile, Chile truckers' strike, Chilean coup, Christopher Andrew, Church Committee, CIA, Claudio Orrego, Claudio Véliz, Clodomiro Almeyda, Cold War, COMINTERN, Communism, Communist Party of Chile, confidential contact, constitution, Cuba, Cuban Revolution, Czechoslovakia, DDR, democracy, DGI, Diario Oficial, Directorate of National Liberation, DLN, East Germany, Eduardo Frei, El Furor y el Delirio, El Mercurio, ELN, Ernesto Guevara, Ethiopia, extremism, Fernandez Oña, Fidel Castro, Fuerza Central, GAP, GDR, General Directorate of Intelligence, German Democratic Republic, Group of Personal Friends, Grupo des Amigos Personales, Grupo Móvil, Guatemalan coup, ideology, Informacion y Chequeo, Intelligence, Investigations Service, Joaquín Fermandois, Jorge Masetti, José Piñera, Joseph Stalin, Juan Carretero Ibáñez, KGB, Latin America, Leandro Yañéz, Leftist Revolutionary Movement, Leonid Brezhnev, Luis Corvalán, Magnificent Five, Mariano Rumor, Mario Garcίa Enchaustegui, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Miguel Enríquez, mir, Miristas, Movement of the Revolutionary Left, Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria, Mozambique, National Liberation Army, national liberation movements, Nikolai Podgorny, North Korea, Novosti, Oscar Waiss, PCC, PCCh, Pedro Vuslovic, Popular Front, Popular Unity, PS, Rule of Law, Salvador Allende, secret police, Servicio de Investigaciones, Sierra Maestra, socialism, Socialist Party, South America, South Vietnam, Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, Soviet Empire, Soviet Politburo, Soviet Union, Spanish civil war, spies, STASI, Svyatoslav Fyodorovich Kuznetsov, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, Third World Strategy, totalitarianism, trades unions, Unidad Popular, United States, urban guerrillas, USSR, Vasili Mitrokhin, Vietnam War, Vladimir Lenin, Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, Yuri Andropov on December 2, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

A Microcosm of Why There’s No Israeli-Palestinian Peace

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 November 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Israel and tagged Abu Iyad, Antisemitism, Ariel Sharon, Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Morris, Bill Clinton, Camp David, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Farouk Kaddoumi, Faruq al-Qaddumi, Gaza, ideology, Israel, Jerusalem, Jewish State, Jews, KGB, Oslo Peace Process, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian National Charter, Palestinian National Council, Palestinian National Covenant, Palestinian State, Phased Program, PLO, PLO Charter, PNC, rejectionism, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Salah Khalaf, Six-Day War, Soviet Union, suicide bombing, Temple Mount, Ten Point Program, terrorism, Tony Blair, United States, West Bank, Yasser Arafat, Zionism on November 18, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Nazis, Augusto Pinochet, and Soviet Propaganda

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 October 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged active measures, Admiral Horthy, Adolf Eichmann, Adolf Hitler, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Allendists, Amnesty International, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Arrow Cross, assassinations, Augusto Pinochet, Auschwitz, Baader-Meinhof Group, Benito Mussolini, Bertrand Russell, BND, Boris Pavlovich Fetisov, Cambodia, Central Intelligence Agency, Chile, Chilean coup, CIA, Clodomiro Almeyda, Cold War, Communism, Cuba, Cuban Revolution, DDR, dezinformatsiya, DINA, Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional, disinformation, East Germany, Ecuador, El Tata, Enrique Pschold Reschenback, Escucha Chile, Eugenio Pacelli, fascism, Fascist Italy, Federal Intelligence Service, Fidel Castro, forgeries, Fourth Reich, FRELIMO, Frente de Libertação de Moçambique, FRG, GDR, German Democratic Republic, Gran Sasso raid, Helsinki Final Act, Henry Kissinger, Holocaust, human rights groups, Hungary, Importadora Goldmann, Intelligence, International League Against Racism and Antisemitism, Iranian Revolution, Iron Curtain, Islamic Revolution, Israel, Izvestia, Jews, Juan Perón, Kampuchea, KGB, Khmer Rouge, Killing Fields, Kommunist, Latin America, Le Monde, LICRA, Luis Corvalán, Manuel Contreras, Marxism-Leninism, media, Mikhail Gorbachev, Miklós Horthy, MOSSAD, Mozambique, Mozambique Liberation Front, National Intelligence Directorate, Nazi Germany, Nazis, Nazism, New York Times, Nicaragua, Novosti, Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Tribunal, NYKP, Operation DENVER, Operation GLADIO, Operation PANZERFAUST, Operation TOUCAN, Orlando Letelier, Otto Skorzeny, Philippe Sands, political warfare, Pope Pius XII, Portugal, Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Revolution, Pravda, propaganda, Radio Moscow, Red Army, Rhodesia, Ronen Bergman, Rose Styron, Russell Tribunal, Salvador Allende, Sandinistas, Schutzstaffel, Second World War, secret police, Simon Wiesenthal, socialism, South America, Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Third World Campaign, Soviet Union, SS, Syria, TASS, terrorism, The Gulag Archipelago, Third Reich, urban guerrillas, USSR, Vietnam War, Walther Rauff, Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, West Germany on October 4, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Taking the Right Lessons From the Dismantling of the Russian Illegals Network in Brazil

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 May 2025

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This entry was posted in Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Adriana Carolina Costa Silva Pereira, Aleksandr Utekhin, Anna Chapman, Anna Dultseva, Anthony Blunt, Arnold Deutsch, Artem Shmyrev, Artyom Dultsev, Cambridge Five, Central Intelligence Agency, Cheka, Chekists, CIA, Communism, corruption, Dmitri Bystrolyotov, Donald Maclean, Eric Lopes, FCD, Federal Security Service, Federico Luiz Gonzalez Rodriguez, First Chief Directorate, Foreign Intelligence Service, FSB, Gerhard Daniel Campos Wittich, Great Illegals, GRU, Guy Burgess, ICC, Illegals, Intelligence, International Criminal Court, Interpol, Irina Alekseyevna Antonova, Irina Shmyreva, Jair Bolsonaro, John Cairncross, Joseph Stalin, KGB, Kim Philby, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Lula, Magnificent Five, Main Intelligence Directorate, Manuel Francisco Steinbruck Pereira, Maria Isabel Moresco Garcia, Maria Luisa Dominguez Cardozo, Mikhail Mikushin, military intelligence, NKVD, non-official cover, Olga Igorevna Tyutereva, Operation EAST, Richard Sorge, Roman Olegovich Koval, Russia, Sergey Cherkasov, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Union, spies, SVR, tradecraft, Tsardom, Ukraine, Uruguay, Victor Muller Ferreira, Vladimir Putin, Yezhovshchina on May 21, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Islamists in Britain React to the Fall of Syria’s Regime

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 January 2025

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This entry was posted in Syria and tagged 5PillarsUK, 9/11, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Musab al-Suri, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad al-Sharaa, al-Qaeda, anti-imperialism, Antisemitism, Azhar Qayum, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Britain, CAGE, Cageprisoners, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, conspiracy theories, extremism, Guantanamo Bay, Haitham al-Haddad, HAMAS, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, homosexuality, Houthis, HTS, ideology, Ikhwan, Iran, IRGC, ISIS, Islam21c, Islamic Resistance Movement, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Islamophobia, Israel, Jews, Jihadi John, jihadism, jihadists, Kashmir, libel, MAB, MCB, MEND, Moazzam Begg, Mohammed Emwazi, Mohammed Haydar Zammar, Muhammad Ahmad, Muslim Association of Britain, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Council of Britain, Muslim Engagement and Development, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, NATO, neoconservatives, Pakistan, Palestine, Salman Butt, September 11 attacks, Soviet Union, Sunni Islam, Ummah Welfare Trust, women’s rights, Yemen, Zionism, Zionists on January 3, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Tucker Carlson’s Interview with Vladimir Putin Didn’t Go Quite As He Planned

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 February 2024

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This entry was posted in Russia and tagged Adolf Hitler, Alsu Kurmasheva, assassination, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Bolsheviks, Boris Yeltsin, Central Intelligence Agency, Chechnya, Cheka, China, Christianity, CIA, Cold War, Communism, conspiracy theories, Dagestan, ethnic cleansing, Evan Gershkovich, FSB, George W. Bush, History, Hungary, Intelligence, Islam, Jews, jihadism, Joseph Stalin, Jugoslavija, KGB, Left-wing, Malcolm Muggeridge, Marquis de Custine, Muslims, National Security Agency, NATO, Nazis, NSA, Orthodox Christianity, Poland, post-liberal, propaganda, religion, revisionism, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, secret police, Serbs, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Union, special services, Tucker Carlson, Twitter, Ukraine, Useful Idiots, Vadim Krasikov, Viktor Orban, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, War on Terror, Yugoslavia, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili on February 10, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Evidence is Now Clear: Iran Was Behind Every Aspect of the October 7 Pogrom in Israel

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 January 2024

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This entry was posted in Iran, Israel and tagged Afghanistan, Al-Aqsa Mosque, al-Hashd al-Shabi, Alawis, Alawites, Ali Khamenei, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Ansarallah, Artesh, Axis of Resistance, Barack Obama, Basel Mahadi, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Benjamin Netanyahu, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Cold War, Communism, Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, DFLP. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Esmail Qaani, Ezzatollah Zarghami, Five Eyes, Gaza, Gaza War, Ghazi Hamad, Gholam Ali Rashid, HAMAS, Hassan Hoballah, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Houthis, Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, Islamic Resistance Movement, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Islamism, Ismail Haniyeh, Ismailism, Israel, Joe Biden, Joint Operations Chamber, Khaled Mashal, Khaled Meshal, Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, Liwa Fatemiyoun, Liwa Fatemiyun, Liwa Zainebiyoun, Liwa Zaynabiyun, missiles, Mohsen Rafighdoost, Muslim Brotherhood, National Defence Forces, NDF, October 7 Pogrom, Osama Hamdan, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Palestinians, PFLP, PIJ, Popular Committees, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Qods Force, Quds Force, Ramazan Sharif, Resistance Axis, Saleh al-Aruri, Shabiha, Shi'a militias, Shi’a jihadism, Soviet Union, Syria, terrorism, Yemen, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Ziyad al-Nakhala on January 24, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

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