Commentary: What Trump has in common with Ayatollah Khomeini
by John Limbert, Los Angeles Times
Jan 12, 2021
3 minutes
Last week's disgraceful spectacle at the United States Capitol resurrected chilling memories for me. Forty-one years ago, on Nov. 4, 1979, I and my colleagues at the American Embassy in Tehran faced a mob that, like the one on Jan. 6, invaded a supposedly sacrosanct compound and overwhelmed inadequate security — all with encouragement from their nation's supreme leader.
For me, the similarities in the two events were unnerving. In the summer and fall of
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