Ben Shapiro

The state's will to repress collapsed.

The Shah ran from Iran, ostensibly for medical treatment.

The revolution then took off from there.

Having recorded sermons and smuggling tapes in Iran from exile in Paris, Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran triumphant and prepared to leverage the chaos to create an Islamic revolution.

He stepped into the power vacuum and his return was welcomed by moronic Westerners who perceived him

as a sort of anti-imperialist.

French intellectual and complete piece of human dreck, Michel Foucault, called Khomeini a saint.

He wasn't really a saint since he began executing thousands of political opponents, purging the army, subjugating women with compulsory hijab laws, and establishing a medieval theocracy.

The new Mullah's regime made its central organizing principle abundantly clear.

They didn't say, we don't like America's foreign policy.

They didn't say, we'd like to renegotiate our trade deals.

They chanted death to America, they burned American flags, and they officially branded the United States as the Great Satan and Israel as the Little Satan.

To prove they meant it, in November of 1979, radical Iranian students, with the blessing of the new regime, stormed the U.S.

embassy in Tehran and seized 52 American diplomats and staff as hostages.

This would become the first great test of American will in the Middle East with regard to the new Iranian regime.

And President Jimmy Carter completely failed.

He rang his hands, he botched a rescue mission, and then he spent the rest of his term begging the Ayatollahs for mercy.

For 444 days, a year and 79 days, the Iranian regime humiliated the United States on live television.

Jimmy Carter tried asking nicely for our citizens back.

He sat in the Oval Office looking impotent.