Yes, all their efforts spreading communism into academia to achieve the revolution backfired when the first thing the new fundamentalist Islamic regime did was to kill off all the communist revolutionaries and turn Iran into a religious extremist hellhole.

Edit: History repeated itself again when they created Al Qaeda to fight off the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and then lost positive control once they were well funded and armed.

Yes, all their efforts spreading communism into academia to achieve the revolution backfired when the first thing the new fundamentalist Islam regime did was to kill off all the communist revolutionaries and turn Iran into a religious extremist hellhole.

Edit: History repeated itself again when they created Al Qaeda to fight off the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and then lost positive control once they were well funded and armed.

Yes, all their efforts spreading communism into academia to achieve the revolution backfired when the first thing the new fundamentalist Islam regime did was to kill off all the communist revolutionaries and turn Iran into a religious extremist hellhole.