Highlighting the significance of Imam Khomeini's letter to the last leader of Soviet Union, he referred to it as a turning point and initiation of dramatic changes in the World History. Mikhail Gorbachev in an interview had said that their current system could not resolve the social and political issues any more, and they were going to substitute a new political system for Communism.”
Al-Khalili also mentioned, “Those who seek assistance from the great Satan [The United States] and expect American policy to solve their problems, have resorted in fact to a defective system governed by a corrupt school of thought”.