Iran 's Islamic revolution delivered a body blow to the Middle East status quo not unlike that landed by the French Revolution on the European autocratic order two centuries before ; it was ideologically aggressive , inherently expansionist and deeply threatening to its neighbors -- in this case , to the United States ' Sunni allies , many of whom had substantial Shia minorities , and to Iraq , which , though long ruled by Sunnis , had a substantial Shia majority .
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