Michael McFaul @McFaul
They were relatively stable for 38 years. That 39th year, however, they were horribly unstable, so much so that it created a security threat to the US ever since. And that's exactly the point about the false promise of autocratic stability. — PolitiTweet.org
Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 @borzou
@McFaul U.S.-Iran relations were "stable and peaceful" under the Shah. Was Iran "a democracy" then?
