According to Leatherman, Iranian Ayatollahs Ruhollah Khomeini and Ali Khamenei saw the West as a source of colonial and neo-colonial domination whose supremacy was to the detriment of Third World countries.[26] Benjamin Barber said US efforts to ensure domestic prosperity seem like a justification for repressing and exploiting others.[2] According to Price, the US military invasion of the Islamic world – two invasions of Iraq, one of Afghanistan – along with supporting the king and dictators of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Yemen, Egypt, and Tunisia, are efforts to control the value of the region's natural resources such as oil for its own benefit.[3]