claim: "in iran in 1979, the extremists hijacked the broad-based popular revolution against the shah and established a brutal theocracy."
author: hillary clinton
evidence_1: 6 جولای 2014 ... for instance, clinton writes that “in iran in 1979, the extremists hijacked the broad -based popular revolution against the shah and established a brutal theocracy.”  we had always closely associated the iranian revolution with islamic  fundamentalism. was clinton's summary correct? we checked in with ...
evidence_2: jun 13, 2014 ... will she? won't she? for more than a decade, hillary clinton's presidential  aspirations have lingered around the political rumor mill. would she take on  president george w. bush in 2004? would 2008 be her year? would she dare  leave the state department to mount a primary challenge to president ...
evidence_3: jul 30, 2017 ... the current iranian regime was born out of a revolution to end the rule of the  shah, but that revolution's goal was to create a secular, pluralistic, and  democratic iran. however, the mullahs hijacked the revolution, creating a  theocracy and suppressing any alternative political voices, including the mek/ pmoi.
evidence_4: on coverage of the middle east and the muslim world. from 1998-2001, ms.abdo  was the iran correspondent for the british newspaper the guard- ian and a  regular contributor to the economist and the international herald tribune. she  was the first. american journalist to be based in iran since the. 1979 islamic  revolution.
evidence_5: jun 30, 2015 ... ... forces are now engaged against jihadism in the middle east, self-identified  muslim terrorists are conducting brutal attacks on american soil. yet president  barack obama, while condemning “terror” in general terms, avoids the term “ islamist terrorism” and even assures us that isis, which aims to establish ...