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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.

The Shah’s Perspective on the Islamic Revolution That Toppled Him

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 October 2022

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This entry was posted in History, Iran and tagged Abolhassan Banisadr, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Ali Khamene’i, Anthony Parsons, Anwar al-Sadat, Atatürk, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bolshevik coup, Bolshevik Revolution, Catherine the Great, China, Cold War, Communism, craze, Ebrahim Yazdi Ruhollah Khomeini, Ekaterina II, Fakhr Arai, French Revolution, Great Civilisation, Hizballah, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, human rights, Ibrahim Yazdi, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, Islam, Islamic Republic, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Jafar Sharif-Emami, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, Kemalism, laik, Lebanon, Leonid Brezhnev, liberalisation, liberals, Liberation Movement of Iran, Libya, LMI, Mahsa Amini, Mehdi Bazargan, Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, mujahideen, Mustafa Kemal, Napoleon Bonaparte, Ngo Dinh Diem, Nicolae Ceausescu, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Parviz Sabeti, Persia, Peter the Great, PLO, propaganda, religion, Reza Khan, Reza Shah, Robert Huyser, Russian Revolution, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, SAVAK, secularism, Shah, Soviet Union, Sun King Louis XIV, terrorism, Tsar Pyotr I, Tudeh, Turkey, Westernisation, White Revolution, William Sullivan, women’s rights on October 30, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

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