Israel Strikes the Regime in Iran

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Commentators on several international channels speak of the thousands of years of Persian history, and they are right. The Persians once bid fair to take over much of Europe, until Alexander of Macedon held them back and defeated them in 331 BC at the Battle of Gaugamela. The Macedonians and Greeks under Alexander defeated the Persian forces under Darius III and became the victor over the Persians. What relation does that have to the clerical regime in Iran that was put in place by Grand Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979? For years Ayatollah Khomeini had been in exile in France, allowed to live there by the Shahenshah of Iran. He had been under the care of liberal Persians such as Abol Hassan Bani-Sadr, who was appointed by Ayatollah Khomeini as the first President of post-Shah Iran. Very soon, Bani-Sadr understood that the plan of Khomeini was not to go into meditation in Iran in the way he had in France, but to rule as the Supreme Leader of a clerical regime. The Ayatollah, backed by mobs conditioned into obedience through years of clandestinely listening to smuggled cassettes playing the rants of the Ayatollah against the Shah, removed Bani-Sadr and from then onwa