While Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was very eagerly interpreting Sayyid Qutb’s radical and fundamentalist ideas and dreaming of building his Islamic regime on the basis of these ideas, he could not have imagined that these same ideas would lead to a bloody sectarian conflict in which Shiites were massacred, as happened to Hassan Shehata in Egypt.
When fundamentalist Shiite parties, such as the Islamic Dawa party, based their ideas on the ideology of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, they never imagined that they would stir up the anger of Egyptian Salafists to the point where the latter would go so far as to call them pigs.