Does Iran Want a War With America?

Khamenei May Want Iran to Be Bombed, But He’s Miscalculating: Just a day prior to the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy, Steven Erlanger, the future New York Times heavyweight who was then just a young reporter for the Boston Globe, filed a dispatch for The New Republic arguing the religious phase of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic Republic was ending.