As a top aide to Ayatullah Khomeini and an 18-year resident of the U.S., Iran's Foreign Minister, Ibrahim Yazdi, has a unique perspective on his country's revolution. Last week he shared his views with TIME's Tehran bureau chief, Bruce van Voorst.
Yazdi warns that the U.S. record as "one of the full supporters of the Shah" has posed a serious problem in relations between Tehran and Washington. Iran's new government, he says, "cannot avoid the conclusion that Americans have been involved in each killing, torture and case of corruption" in the past. Iranians "do...
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