“You will see we are not in any particular animosity with the Americans,” said Khomeini, pledging his new state – the one that became the repressive Islamic Republic – will be “a humanitarian one, which will benefit the cause of peace and tranquillity for all mankind”.
The Americans were convinced that Khomeini was a Gandhi figure.
This was always suspected but it is so interesting to see the actual messages in this BBC story. And the naivete and gullible folly of the Carter administration is on full display – just a part of Khomeini’s cunning campaign to hold together a broad coalition of Iranian leftists, radicals, many of them secular, and his conservative Islamists along with a large constituency of credulous Western media including the BBC. We are seeing the Western part of that coalition refusing to condemn the Islamic dictator today – even as its killers shoot girls and boys in the streets overnight….
BBC story, from June 2016, here.
Mick Hartley 
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