Tag: Islamic Revolution in Iran

By Kevin Barrett On 22 Bahman (11 February) 1979, Imam Ruhollah Khomeini, hitherto forced to live in exile, returned to Iran to guide the triumphant Islamic Revolution and found the world’s first Islamic republic in contemporary history. When it became clear that Imam Khomeini was serious about forging a modern, forward-looking Islamic society that would radically break with Western political philosophy and its imperial world order, Western observers—their arrogance tempered by barely-concealed panic—predicted that the Islamic Republic would be a short-lived experiment. They quickly set about trying to ensure that...