The Shah (of Iran) was - despite the travesties of retroactive myth - a dedicated reformer

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire - this time under the Shia label.

That means you can do what you're doing, but you have to change how you're doing it, ... That's retroactive.

is the opposite of a reformer.

I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office.