I had a ringside seat for the Iranian revolution. Foreign meddling didn’t work then either
- Posted on March 14, 2026
- By The Guardian
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I had a ringside seat for the Iranian revolution. Foreign meddling didn’t work then either

Even as the first western journalist to interview Ayatollah Khomeini, I had no inkling of what was to come. Perhaps we should have learned from history, says Paul Taylor of the European Policy Centre