The Coming Iranian Revolution

Dr. Milani is the director of Iranian studies at Stanford University and a fellow at the Hoover Institution.

To help understand how the Iranian people will react after the American and Israeli attacks end, it is important to realize that the 1979 Iranian revolution was no revolution at all. It was a cunning bait-and-switch game cleverly played by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who put himself at the head of the movement.

The people of Iran wanted a revolution based on the idea of modern citizenship and a social contract, to bring democracy, freedom, independence and a republic, even an Islamic one but without clerical rule. Ayatollah........

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