Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

For a decade, under Khomeini himself, the regime tried to make the rest of region like itself by "exporting revolution". The results were meagre. Tehran managed to influence part of the Shi'ite community in Lebanon and create a branch of Hezbollah in that country. Tehran also succeeded in turning Syria into a client state without, however, persuading the Baathist regime to adopt Walayat al-Faqih.