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Iran Regime Officials Seek Future in U.S.
(Asharq Al-Awsat-UK) Amir Taheri - Even the Khomeinist ruling clique prefers the U.S. to their new Russian and Chinese allies. According to an Iranian parliament report in 2019, some 3,000 children of regime apparatchiks were studying in the U.S., while over 1,500 senior officials held U.S. "green cards" (a kind of permanent residence permit). A study by a Swiss-Iranian researcher shows that over 400 former Islamic Republic and Islamic Revolutionary Guard officials are employed in U.S. universities, media and think tanks. Iranians don't ask the U.S. for any material or military help in their struggle to build a different Iran. All they ask is for the U.S. to be true to its professed principle of never siding with oppressors. The writer was the executive editor-in-chief of the daily Kayhan in Iran from 1972 to 1979.