Khomeini's revolution commits his successors to hardline nuclear policies, argues Con Coughlin in a new book
It has taken 30 years, but after decades of intense hostility and mutual recrimination which, on more than one occasion, have come close to provoking all-out war with the West, the hardline regime that controls Iran appears to have made its first conciliatory gesture towards the country that it is more used to demonising as the Great Satan.
Even as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was making his first tentative steps towards opening a dialogue with the new administration of Barack Obama this week, thousands of diehard supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini were chanting their familiar slogans of "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" as they gathered around Khomeini's mausoleum to mark the 30th anniversary of his Islamic revolution.
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