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Fruits of Iran's Revolution

• arclein
In the United States, however, the Iranian Revolution has a much different meaning. It signifies, first and foremost, the fall of arguably the US's closest ally in the Middle East - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah - and the advent of an assertive and revisionist state - the Islamic Republic of Iran - which had little regard for maintaining America's privileges in the region. Far from sympathizing with Iranians' yearning to cast off the yoke of dictatorship, the United States saw in the revolution little more than a baffling, chaotic outburst

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