M. K. Kaya
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Central Asia-Caucasus Inst. & Silk Road Studies Program
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (R) with Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani as the new government is presented after the Iranian Revolution. (Photo by Alain Dejean/Sygma via Getty Images)