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The Dig: Iran, 1979-1997. Islamic Republic, War, and Thermidor

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Khomeini and Raf Sanjani Partnering to Rebuild Relations With the Gulf States

Khomeini and Raf Sanjani worked together to reshape Iran along the lines that perhaps Khomeini had desired but that were also somewhat new in the sense of this Thermador like period. Rassanjani very quickly moved to normalize relations to try and rebuild relations with the Gulf States as I said and they were just very aware that they needed to be a serious change in how the Islamic Republic oriented to the world if the regime was basically going to survive so yeah he very much saw himself as rationalizing bureaucracy he saw himself as ally.

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