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Let play with the following: A agent of The Shah security police is able to assasinate Ayatollah Khomeini during his exil in France. In OTL the Shah is sick from Cancer but if he isn't? And able to strangle the Islamic Revolution. He institutes some democratic reform to make Jimmy Carter happy and the decent in the Iranian people die down.
No Iranian hostage crisis could this give Carter second term? Could Ronald Reagan be a one term President?
What about the arms race with the USSR?
Then by 1980 the pro-American Shah is still in control of Iran. So what about Saddam Hussein? What about Hezbollah? Hamas? What about Afghanistan? Would the USSR still invade? With no Iranian support how would Hezbollah be able to battle Israel in Lebanon? Could they survive with help from Syria alone?
With no Iran/Iraq war to bankrupt his economy there would no need for Iraq to invade Kuwait in 1990, thusly no need to put American troops in Saudiarabia and hence bin ladin and his peers are not angered by this. Thus no 911???
in this TL who be US President in the 1990s and in year 2001?