Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s 1979 Islamic Revolution ended Iran’s nearly five centuries of uninterrupted imperial rule. But it continued the Persian tradition of territorial expansionism and regional dominance dating back to Cyrus the Great, whose empire in the sixth century B.C. stretched from North Africa to Central Asia. Iran’s Islamic revolutionaries pursued their imperial objective under […]
The Dilemma of Iran’s Islamic Revolution
Tehran must cope with a hostile environment and a dwindling ability to retaliate.
