{"id":348602,"date":"2026-03-16T06:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348602\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T06:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:09:10","slug":"senan-molony-how-irans-ayatollah-khomeini-helped-push-ireland-and-us-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348602\/","title":{"rendered":"Senan Molony: How Iran\u2019s Ayatollah Khomeini helped push Ireland and US together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">A detour to his ancestral home of Ballyporeen, Co Tipperary, by Ronald Reagan was also pivotal in securing Irish-American votes\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/9631242a-1b43-45fb-9197-0aaca7d4823a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As the Taoiseach flies to the United States, history shows that it is actually Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who ironically threw Ireland and America intimately together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The closer relations came about \u00adafter the presentation of shamrock in the White House had initially been made by the Irish ambassador to the United States, and not with any major media palaver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A detour to his ancestral home of Ballyporeen, Co Tipperary, by Ronald Reagan was also pivotal in securing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5456,969,61,11829,60,5455,1843,43,2042,63762],"class_list":["post-348602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-ie","tag-iran","tag-ireland","tag-joe-biden","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news","tag-senan-molony","tag-st-patricks-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}