Tag: Iranian Revolution

What do Yasser Arafat, Nelson Mandela, and Thomas Sankara have in common? The answer is simple: All three were intent on meeting with the leaders of the Iranian Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei. All three knew what it meant to liberate a people from colonialism; all three knew imperialism...

Citizens of West Asia—and the world—are waiting with baited breath for a widely anticipated backlash to Israel’s assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran from Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. The scale and form of that counterattack are a matter of intense speculation. So too is how—and whether—the Zionist...