Rassanjani Khomeini and Raf Sanjani Partnering in Iran

Rafael Sanjani saw himself in the vein or very much in the model of a reformer of sorts, a top down maybe authoritarian reformer, but very much a reformer. So yeah, he very much saw himself as rationalizing bureaucracy, he saw himself as ally, he was very much part of this faction called the new right. And so anyway, Rassanjani Khomeini very quickly moved to normalize relations to try and rebuild relations with the Gulf States. They were just very aware that they needed to be in a sense a serious change in how the Islamic Republic oriented to the world of the regime was basically going to survive.