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A Matter "Iran's Foreign Devils" Roy Parviz Mottahedeh, in Foreign Policy (Spring of Revenge 1980), P.O. BOX 984, Farmingdale, N.Y.
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By supporting the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and many Iranians have put nationalist sentiments ahead of true fealty to Islamic teachings. This reflects the Iranians' powerful xenophobic urge to avenge long years of alleged foreign dom- ination, writes Mottahedeh, who teaches Islamic history at Princeton.
Islam's...