Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad, Khamenei — Four Men Who Defied America

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Four dictators — Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad, Khamenei — each built a police state to defy the American-led order. Each learned the wrong lesson from the last. All of them fell. From Saddam's 1979 "room of names" to the strike on Khamenei's office in 2026, this is the full story of four rulers who rejected the American-led order, watched each other fall, learned the wrong lessons from each other's failures — and built fortresses that none of them survived. A documentary on power, paranoia, and the price of defiance in the modern Middle East.