What makes Iranians hate Britain

What makes Iranians hate Britain
Thu Dec 1, 2011 3:19PM

The United Kingdom has a history of adopting hostile measures against
Iran, which is why the Iranian nation hates the British monarchy, an
English journalist says.

“It's a weird irony that Iranians know the history of Anglo-Persian
relations better than the Brits,” Robert Fisk wrote in an editorial in
the UK daily, the Independent, on Wednesday.

The English writer and journalist opened the article by evoking an
anecdote where an Iranian post-revolution official reminds a Reuters'
reporter that “the founder of the world's greatest news agency (Baron
von Reuter) had built Persia's railways at an immense profit.”

Fisk went on to trace the UK's pernicious acts against the Iranians
all the way back to 1941, when “Britain staged a joint invasion of
Iran with Soviet forces.”

Just over a decade later, the British “helped the Americans overthrow
the democratically elected [then Iranian Prime Minister] Mohammed
Mossadegh in 1953 after he nationalized Britain's oil possessions in
the country,” he added.

“This was not a myth but a real, down-to-earth conspiracy. The CIA
called it Operation Ajax; the Brits wisely kept their ambitions in
check by calling it Operation Boot,” the journalist noted.

Fisk further said that the UK is also responsible for the deaths of
hundreds or “perhaps thousands” of Iranians when its “ruthless” MI6
agent in Tehran Colonel Monty Woodhouse brought weapons into Iran and
he eagerly supported the CIA's project to fund the overthrow of
Mossadegh.

Thus, through helping Shah to re-impose his rule, London was also to
blame for the torture of the opponents of the regime by Shah's
faithful secret SAVAK police, the editorial added.

Fisk then asked in a thinly veiled sarcastic tone, “How dare the
Iranians remember all this?”

He goes on to add that the documents seized after the takeover of the
US embassy in Tehran in 1979 “proved to the Iranians not only
Washington's attempts to subvert the new order of [late founder of the
Islamic Revolution] Ayatollah [Seyyed Ruhollah] Khomeini but the
continued partnership of the American and British intelligence
services.”

HMV/HJL/IS

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