It was as if the world were asleep in 1979. No one knew that the genie of political Islam and Islamic terrorism was about to emerge from the magic bottle, and that the shifting sands of the Middle East would witness the fusion of communism and political Islam — two destructive schools of thought. Two schools blended together that, in Iran, ushered in the age of killers. The danger posed by the Shiite mullah was greater than that posed by Marx and Engels. The West and the United States failed to stop the growth of Khomeinist Islamism, and later Taliban Islam, ISIS Islam, and others were also born, all of them connected to Khomeinist Islam.

Naturally, had the calamity of 1979 not occurred, the world today would have been at peace, and events such as Sept. 11 would not have happened. But a terrorist cult — or dark-minded men who believed in killing and genocide, dressed in the robes of mullahs — came to power in the disaster-stricken land of Iran, and for half a century they have promoted superstition, delusion, and stupidity in Iran, a civilized land with an ancient history. They destroyed the intellectual foundations of Iranian society and turned a historic country into a silent and desolate swamp. In the Middle East, they also created the Shiite Crescent, and under their tent, more than eleven terrorist groups formed the mafia of a transnational Islamic terrorism network.