Many of them never went home. They stayed here asking for political asylum.
In truth, they created the Islamic state we face today. Where on earth do you get this stuff???
BS. Where do you get this information from? Anyone with an association with the US was suspect. The exiles who returned to Iran after the Revolution found themselves to be targets. The students who returned from the US were not the ones in charge of creating the Islamic state. How many Iranian governmental officials today were educated in the US?
I reiterate. The mullahs hijacked the revolution. They killed and assassinated anyone opposed to them. They didn't trust anyone with a Western connection, especially in the beginning. They were worried that the CIA and other US intelligence agencies would try to topple them. The poor and uneducated were/are the mullahs main constituency. They are the religious zealots.
When the Iranians overan our embassy on Feb 14, 1979, they put a former butcher in charge of the Mujadeen who occupied and looted the embassy compound. The Fadayian, a Marxist guerrilla group, also occupied our compound by setting up their operation in the Ambassador's residence. It took months before we got them out, only to see them return on November 4th and take our diplomats hostage for 444 days. The only real impact the Iranian students in the US had on the Revolution was to convince Carter and the US public that the Shah needed to be removed.
Scholar's Arrest Might Signal New Wave of Repression in Iran, Friend and Colleague Says
By DAVID GLENN
At a Tehran airport on April 27, 2006 Iranian police arrested Ramin Jahanbegloo, a French-educated scholar who directs the department of contemporary thought at the Cultural Research Bureau, a think tank in Tehran. Mr. Jahanbegloo is the author of books on Hegel, Mohandas K. Gandhi, and Isaiah Berlin; he has been a fellow at Harvard University and has taught at the University of Toronto.
No formal charges have been issued, but newspapers aligned with the Iranian regime have denounced Mr. Jahanbegloo as an American agent engaged in "cultural activities against Iran." He is reported to be in custody at Evin Prison, which has been notorious as a torture center.