Washington Times Commentary Editor Kelly Sadler interviews Clifford D. May, president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, on the roots of the Middle East conflict.
I want all of our viewers to check out your column today. It talks about how this conflict in the Middle East is centuries old. I did not know that you were on the ground in 1979 during the Iranian Revolution. Can you talk to our viewers about that experience and why, if President Trump decides to intervene in this war, it is on behalf of “America First” policies and principles?
I was a young foreign correspondent in Iran covering the revolution. Most people at that point thought it was an Iranian revolution. It became clear to me that it was an Islamic revolution, not an Iranian revolution at all. It had nothing to do with Iran. If anything, those carrying out the revolution at the highest level only disparaged Iran’s past as a great empire under Cyrus the Great. Iran is an ancient civilization.
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