(Jerusalem Post) Zvi Mazel - The Iranian regime is based on the legacy of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who launched the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, set down its principles and passed them to his successor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The two main points of that legacy are first, that the country be ruled by a religious authority, and second, that the Islamic Revolution led by him be permanent. By permanent Islamic revolution, Khomeini and his successor meant not only that Iran will forever be ruled by a cleric authority, but that the Iranian model of a Shia regime must be exported first to the countries of the Middle East and then to the U.S., a symbol of the decadence of the West and referred to as "the Great Satan." The writer, a fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, is a former ambassador to Romania, Egypt and Sweden.
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