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The front pages of the Aug. 13 edition of the Iranian newspapers, Vatan-e Emrooz, front, with title reading in Farsi: &quot;Knife in the neck of Salman Rushdie,&quot; and Hamshahri, rear, with title: &quot;Attack on writer of Satanic Verses,&quot; are pictured in Tehran Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran’s leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Praise, worry in Iran after Rushdie attack; government quiet

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

FILE — In this photo taken on Jan. 29 2019, former Iranian President, Abolhassan Banisadr, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Versailles, west of Paris, France. Banisadr, Iran's first president after the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution who fled Tehran after being impeached for challenging the growing power of clerics as the nation became a theocracy, died Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021. He was 88. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Banisadr, Iran’s first president after 1979 revolution, dies

By Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Illustration on Iran by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Islamic Revolution 101: Ambitious Iranian theocrats seizing power still widely misunderstood

By Clifford D. May

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 1979 file photo, demonstrators burn an American flag atop the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, where students have been holding American hostages. Nov. 4, 2019, will mark the 40th anniversary of the start of the 444-day hostage crisis that soured relations between the U.S. and the Islamic Republic for decades to come. (AP Photo/Thierry Campion, File)

Key moments in the 1979 Iran hostage crisis at US Embassy

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

This image released by Magnolia Pictures shows Mike Wallace in a scene from the documentary &quot;Mike Wallace Is Here.&quot; (Magnolia Pictures via AP)

Review: Looking back at Mike Wallace, who made ‘em squirm

By JOCELYN NOVECK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 1979 file photo, a follower of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini holds a rifle containing a flower outside of Khomeini's headquarters in Tehran, Iran. Monday, Feb. 11, 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, which overthrew the caretaker government left behind by the cancer-stricken Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who had left the country only weeks earlier. (AP Photo/Michel Lipchitz, File)

AP WAS THERE: Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution sweeps nation

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 1978 file photo, Iranian protesters demonstrate against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Tehran, Iran. Forty years ago, Iran's ruling shah left his nation for the last time and an Islamic Revolution overthrew the vestiges of his caretaker government. The effects of the 1979 revolution, including the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and ensuing hostage crisis, reverberate through decades of tense relations between Iran and America. (AP Photo, File)

Key moments in Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

This Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019, photo, shows the shrine of Iran's revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside of Tehran, Iran. The memory of Khomeini, who died in 1989 at the age of 86, literally looms large over Tehran today. His golden-domed mausoleum in southern Tehran is one of the first things people see driving into the city from the airport named for him. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Ayatollah Khomeini’s family mostly absent from Iran politics

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 1979 file photo, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's exiled religious leader, emerges from a plane after his arrival at Mehrabad airport in Tehran, Iran. Friday, Feb. 1, 2019, marks the 40th anniversary of Khomeini's descent from the chartered Air France Boeing 747, a moment that changed the country’s history for decades to come. (AP Photo/FY, File)

Iran begins marking 40th anniversary of Islamic Revolution

By NASSER KARIMI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 1978 file photo, Iranian protesters demonstrate against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Tehran, Iran. Forty years ago, Iran's ruling shah left his nation for the last time and an Islamic Revolution overthrew the vestiges of his caretaker government. The effects of the 1979 revolution, including the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and ensuing hostage crisis, reverberate through decades of tense relations between Iran and America. (AP Photo, File)

Key moments in Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 1979 file photo, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, center, is greeted by supporters in Tehran, Iran. Friday, Feb. 1, 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of Iran’s exiled Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini return to Tehran, a moment that changed the country’s history for decades to come. That revolution would spark the U.S. Embassy takeover and hostage crisis, stoking the animosity that exists between Tehran and Washington to this day. (AP Photo, File)

AP WAS THERE: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019, a view of the entrance gate to Rue de Chevreuse, close to the cottage which served as Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's operational and media headquarters during his four month stay in October 1978, in Neauphle-Le-Chateau, west of Paris. Sheltered in a cottage in a sleepy village outside Paris, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini piped out messages daily to hundreds of followers clamoring to glimpse their glowering idol with black turban, and amplified his pronouncements with recorded messages to Iranians at home, turning his humble abode into an international megaphone for the Islamic revolution. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Khomeini launched a revolution from a sleepy French village

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

Illustration on Iranian decline by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Marking four decades of Iranian decline

By Ilan Berman

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 1978 file photo, Iranian protesters demonstrate against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Tehran, Iran. Forty years ago, Iran's ruling shah left his nation for the last time and an Islamic Revolution overthrew the vestiges of his caretaker government. The effects of the 1979 revolution, including the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and ensuing hostage crisis, reverberate through decades of tense relations between Iran and America. (AP Photo, File)

Key moments in Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE- In this Sept. 27, 1951 file photo, Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh rides on the shoulders of cheering crowds in Tehran's Majlis Square, outside the parliament building, after reiterating his oil nationalization views to his supporters. (AP Photo, File)

Coup, revolution and mistrust: Moments in Iran-US relations

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Illustration on Iranian manipulation of the U.S. by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Iran situation required careful U.S. involvement

By Clifford D. May

Illustration on the illicit de facto alliance with Iran by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Secret deals have made allies of U.S., Iran

By James A. Lyons

Meeting of the minds: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (left) met in private with Pope Francis at the Vatican Tuesday during a European trip aimed at positioning Tehran as a potential top player in efforts to resolve Middle East conflicts — including Syria's civil war — as Tehran's nuclear sanctions dissolve. Story, A9. (Associated Press)

Iran hard-liners reject middle path, disqualify moderate candidates

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

NEWT GINGRICH: Losing the war with Iran

By Newt Gingrich