Iran’s revolution inspired subversive plots even in communist-run Bosnia

Evidence

Sarajevo is a particularly striking case. Though its population is predominantly Muslim, Sarajevo is a European city in a country that had by then been under communist rule for thirty-five years. Nevertheless, the appeal of the Iranian revolution was so strong that the Yugoslav papers reported trials of young men in Sarajevo accused of plotting to overthrow the regime and establish an Islamic republic in Bosnia. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1514

Categorization

• XREF: Evidence of how a revolution becomes a template that later Islamist movements (e.g., Bosnian mujahideen in the 1990s war) would invoke — connects to histories of Islamism as exported category.
• QUESTION: The claimed Sarajevo trials would be worth verifying against Yugoslav archival sources — how substantial was the plot, and how did the regime’s framing shape the report Lewis cites?