Politics & Power Quote by Ayatollah Khomeini

Khomeini’s line is a victory lap dressed up as commentary, and the phrasing is doing more work than it first admits. Calling the White House the “Black House” isn’t just a cheap insult; it’s a deliberate inversion meant to stain American power with moral rot. In his rhetoric, the United States isn’t a rival state with interests, it’s a corrupting force, and the renaming performs that judgment in miniature. You don’t argue with an epithet. You inherit it.

The “great explosion” and “very important scandal” point to a moment when Washington looked internally compromised - Watergate-era dysfunction or, more broadly, the televised unraveling of American authority. Khomeini understood how much U.S. legitimacy depended on its self-image: competent, lawful, self-correcting. A scandal punctures that myth in front of the whole world, and he’s “congratulating everyone” because he wants the audience - especially in the postcolonial and Muslim worlds - to treat U.S. crisis as collective emancipation. When the superpower stumbles, the story goes, smaller nations breathe.

The subtext is revolutionary pedagogy. Khomeini isn’t merely pleased; he’s instructing listeners on how to read global news: American turmoil is not a domestic affair, it’s proof that the “Great Satan” is vulnerable, decadent, and therefore beatable. The line turns governance failure into geopolitical opportunity, and it’s calibrated to harden an us-versus-them worldview while laundering schadenfreude into moral righteousness.