Beware the Anti-Imperialist Imperialist touches upon the similarities between the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the Russian Revolution of 1917. Both revolutions advocated getting rid of foreign influence – in Russia’s case, England, France, and Germany and in Iran’s, the West–only to then export their ideology. Russia to the rest of the globe (Central and South America, South East Asia, etc) via revolutionary communism and Iran to its neighboring countries, from Lebanon (via Hezbollah) to Syria (via Hamas) and Iraq (via influence in the Shi’ite block), to name a few.