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Islamic Terrorism their losses and gains during the Khomeinian revolution. A move towards finding a new order for Iran could be imminent. . During the war, the need to keep up the morale of the common masses in Iran was amply met by the excitement of the conflict. When. Iran runs out of morale, that will be the day of great uncertainty. . Whether the present regime is replaced by leftist or rightist forces or by whatever is left of the middle-roaders, there will certainly be a great battle to gain supremacy and take over the government. . Everything will go back into the melting-pot and nobody can say for certain what is in store for Iran. Allah knows best. I can only pray for the people of Iran that their difficult times may come to a peaceful and happy conclusion. They are a brave and gifted people indeed. They have suffered so much in the past and are still suffering, both at the hands of non-Iranian and Iranians - and, ironically, they have also acquired a bad name into the bargain. May Allah show mercy upon them and deliver them from their great predicament. . Now we turn to another aspect of the Khomeinian revolution in Iran. . Soon after coming to power, Ayatollah Khomeini planned not only to change the life-style of Iranian Muslims from overt or covert foreign domination, but he also committed himself to bring about similar revolutions in the neighbouring Muslim states. He also made it known to the Muslim world that he would play a stronger role in helping the. Palestinians and defeating the Zionist forces. Obviously, neither the other Muslim states nor the state of Israel were willing to receive couriers of the Iranian revolution with open arms; so the export could not be effected through legal and peaceful means. Iran has failed to deliver the revolutionary goods to neighbouring Muslim countries. It has achieved a measure of success, without doubt, in the Palestinian - Israeli sector. As. I have already explained, the terrorist activities carried out in this area, whether directed against Israel or against representatives of Western powers, take their licence not from Islam but from the philosophy of the. Iranian revolution alone. . The growing talk of militancy and the use of force which we hear needs to be carefully analysed before we can understand the importance of this bizarre phenomenon. The narrow, non-tolerant attitude is certainly becoming more popular with the Muslim ‘clergy' in almost all. Muslim countries. The responsibility for this mainly lies on the shoulders of Saudi Arabia, which is attempting to capture the imagination of the whole Muslim world and seems resolved to spread its political influence 113