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...When Mousavi was Prime Minister, he oversaw an office that ran operatives abroad, from Lebanon to Kuwait to Iraq. This was the heyday of Khomeini's theocratic vision, when Iran thought it really could export its revolution across the Middle East, providing money and arms to anyone who claimed he could upend the old order. Mousavi was not only swept up into this delusion but also actively pursued...
...Iranian people's hatred for America is profound." - In a speech on Iranian state TV. (Middle East Media Research Institute...
...Iran wrong with a startling degree of consistency," says Suzanne Maloney, senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy. "We definitely got it wrong this time. I say that for everyone in government and for everyone out of government." (See what Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's win means for other world leaders...
...despite the rebirth of religious fundamentalism among millions of Iranians and their yearning for an obscure Muslim cleric living in exile: Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. U.S. military, diplomatic and intelligence officers blanketed Tehran but ignored the gathering storm. It was a massive blunder. Khomeini swept into power and transformed Middle East politics and alliances. His supporters seized the American compound and its occupants, an act that has frozen bilateral relations in a state of hostility ever since...
...challenges to conventional wisdom, the uprising may be creating new misperceptions. The spotlight on young, English-speaking protesters in Western garb gives a false impression that they are typical of Iranians, says Ken Katzman, a Middle East specialist at the Congressional Research Service. "These symbols of the Iranian reform movement are quite visible, quite vocal and quite well endowed, technologically. But they're not a majority. We keep missing that." Rutgers University professor Hooshang Amirahmadi fears that policymakers will focus more on the election than on the larger struggle of a new class of secular nationalists to break the bonds...