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Again, obfuscation was cleared and no realizations were harmed...He did make a point. You also, perhaps without realising, made the same point. You now refuse to acknowledge it.
The point being?Where do you think Khomeini was even hiding until he returned to Iran on an AIR FRANCE flight?
Shah was vociferously anti communist but due to sentiment couldn't take on the religious establishment. Khomeini wasn't a revolutionary but had a theology...
French could care less for
Funniest thing ever... tell me you don't know jack without telling meYes, the West gambled on shia clerics to fight off the Soviets, but the Shah wasn't doing that bad a job at fighting against then himself. There was a second use for the clerics - to keep Arabs and Persians fighting each other instead of Israel.
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The revolution was anti Shah...
Shah was going to fall regardless... question is, who'd replace him... and here the thumb of the empire helped tilt scales in favor. Though it could've gone clerical regardless... because they had the only unmolested voice in Iran.
Divide and rule... however, here... a religious and historical nation got stabilized...This tactic should not come as a shock. Tel Aviv created Hamas to fight against the PLO.
I often berate these regional actors for falling for Israel's plot but it is equally plausible that some are happy to willingly play along.
None of the actors that play along are naive...
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