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How the Palestinians Enabled the Islamic Revolution in Iran

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 19 January 2026

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.

The Soviet Propaganda and Terrorism Offensive Against Pinochet’s Chile

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 December 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged active measures, activism, Africa, African National Congress, agitprop, Alamiro Guzmán, Amnesty International, ANC, anti-apartheid movement, anti-colonialism, anti-nuclear activism, Antonio Salazar, Augusto Pinochet, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Benjamín, Boat for Chile, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Carlos Altamirano, Chile, Chile Democrático, Chilean Communist Party, Christianity, Clodomiro Almeyda, CND, Cold War, Colonel Gaddafi, Colonel Qaddafi, colonialism, Comandante Rodrigo, Communism, Communist Party of Great Britain, CPGB, Cuban Revolution, DDR, deception operations, democracy, Dissident Movement, East Germany, Eastern Bloc, Erich Honecker, Escucha Chile, Eurocommunism, fascism, FPMR, Francisco Franco, Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez, GDR, General Franco, German Democratic Republic, Germany, Greece, Gustavo Leigh, Hezbollah, Hizballah, human rights, human rights NGOs, Imperialism, influence operations, Intelligence, International Commission of Inquiry into the Crimes of the Military Junta, International Union of Students, Iran, Iron Curtain, Islamic Revolution, Jaime Guzmán, KGB, Kim Christiaens, Latin America, Lech Walesa, Libya, Luis Corvalán, Manuel Bustos, Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, Moscow Centre, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Musa al-Sadr, national liberation movements, Nazis, Nazism, Nicaragua, pacifists, PCC, PCCh, peace movement, Poland, Pope John Paul II, Popular Front, Popular Unity, Portugal, propaganda, Raúl Pellegrin, Rodolfo Seguel, Roman Catholic Church, Sandinista Revolution, Sandinistas, Second World War, secret police, Shah, socialism, Socialist Commonwealth, Solidarity, Solidarność, South Africa, South America, Soviet Bloc, Soviet Dissidents, Soviet Empire, Soviet Union, Spain, STASI, terrorism, totalitarianism, trades unions, Unidad Popular, United Nations, Vietnam War, Vladimir Bukovsky, Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, World Council of Churches, World Federation of Democratic Youth, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Peace Council, Yasser Arafat on December 3, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

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