WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Trump understands the significance of Iran
By
Hugh Hewitt
June 18, 2025 11:31 am
The late shah of Iran was forced into exile by the Islamic Revolution on Jan. 16, 1979. On Feb. 1, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran from his exile in France and proceeded — as Lenin did when the Kaiser’s Germany injected him “in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus … into Russia,” to quote Churchill — to impose a medieval fanaticism on a prospering part of the West, a country of enormous natural wealth and a highly educated people. Within weeks, crowds of millions were chanting “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.” A stunned and incompetent President Jimmy Carter and his team did not know what they had allowed to happen.
Former President Richard Nixon did. I was on his very small staff in San Clemente as he went about writing his first of many bestsellers, The Real War. The former president, his chief writer Ray Price, and I would take breaks from our tasks to watch the daily madness from Tehran in those months. Nixon was clear-eyed: This was a disaster for the West. One of the three pillars of the Middle East, the others being Israel and Saudi Arabia, had fallen into chaos and the iron grip of a fanatic unlike any the modern world had dealt with since Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong and Soviet Union Prime Minister Joseph Stalin at their worst.
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Darkness descended on Iran and the great Persian people, and history was submerged under extremist Shia rule. First Khomeini and then his successor, the “Supreme Leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have always been the only people who mattered in the dictatorship that evolved from the revolution. Since then, Iranian agents have kidnapped, killed, and wounded thousands of Americans, assassinated hundreds of expatriate Iranians, and spread terror around the world even as the country built terrorist proxy armies around Israel.
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