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Watch: Experts look back on Iran’s 1979 revolution and the US response

January 24, 2019

Pro-Khomeini demonstration in Mashhad - 1978. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pro-Khomeini_demonstration_in_Mashhad_-_1978.jpg

Iran’s revolution shook the world in 1979. Forty years later, Brookings experts Suzanne Maloney and Bruce Riedel look back on the rise of the Islamic Republic and explore what the revolution means for today’s volatile Middle East and U.S. relations with Iran.

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Suzanne Maloney Vice President and Director - Foreign Policy

Bruce Riedel Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

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