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Two past developments can help us understand the present. The first was when Ayatollah Khomeini, after the victory of the revolution, ordered the removal of the Israeli flag from its embassy in Tehran and that it be replaced with a Palestinian one. He changed the nature of his relations with the most challenging issue in the Middle East. The second was when the world watched as Americans became hostages in the embassy of their country in Tehran. The hostage crisis dragged on, irrevocably changing relations between Tehran and Washington.
Iran has never made it a secret. Its own constitution speaks about exporting the revolution and championing the weak. It chants about wiping Israel from existence and expelling the “Great Satan” — America — from the region.
The victory of the Khomeinist revolution was no ordinary development. The revolution was born out of the realm of the world of two camps in a country that boasts massive capabilities and lies at the crosspoint of straits, routes, wealth and roads. Experience has shown that crushing victories against regimes like that of the shah give the victorious an extraordinary dose of arrogance and an insatiable ambition. This is what happened. The victorious fell into the trap of aiming to change the features of the Middle East and even beyond.
