The End of Iran’s Islamic Revolution
The nuclear agreement that Iran concluded last month with the major global powers marked the end of its revolution, after 35 years. But it was not US-led sanctions that forced Iran's leaders to attend to traditional questions of national interest and realpolitik; it was the rise of the Islamic State.
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STONY BROOK – The nuclear deal reached in July by Iran and its international interlocutors marks an obvious turning point in the Islamic Republic’s relations with the outside world, particularly with the United States. But why has it taken so much longer for the US to come to terms with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s revolution in Iran than it did with Mao Zedong’s revolution in China?