That a simplistic anaysis. A pragmatist ideology like Lenin often went against his prinicples but he is still an ideolog. That's one of the prime tendencies of

That a simplistic anaysis. A pragmatist ideology like Lenin often went against his prinicples but he is still an ideolog. That's one of the prime tendencies of leninism. The same for the guys in Iran. We should be carful of such simplistic binaries between idiology and state interest. My point is this, they way they go their national interest is defently inspired by idiological ways of thinking.