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By Daniel L. Byman | Sunday, February 18, 2007 | The Washington Post

Iran has a long history of meddling in its’ neighbor’s affairs since the revolution of 1979 put Ayatollah Khomeini and a circle of Shi’ite clerics in control of the government. Daniel Byman should know: he is director of Georgetown University’s Center for Peace and Security Studies and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center (yes, that Saban, the Power Rangers’ tycoon producer). Anti-Americanism is a fundamental attitude in Iran since the fall of the Shah. Increasingly, with US troops in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, and a strengthened US-Pakistan security pact, Iran sees itself surrounded. This is not mere free-floating paranoia.

The article runs through an excellent capsule review of the major events and shifting foreign policies of Iran since the fall of the Shah, and goes on to predict the role of Iran in post-occupation Iraq…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021601708.html