Uncle Swami by Vijay Prashad7/2/2023 ![]() The British Ambassador to Tehran, Sir Cecil Spring Rice wrote to the Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, “We are regarded as having betrayed the Persian people.” That assessment remains to this day. The British and the Russians signed an entente to strangle the revolution. ![]() ![]() Iran’s democratic heritage extends backwards to its great Constitutional Revolution (1905-06) that raised the spirits of a resurgent Asia. This is all true as context: there has been a long-standing animosity between the Atlantic powers and Iranian democratic ambitions. It was the Gulf Arab reticence to pay up that led to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, and the full-scale entry of US troops into Saudi Arabia (which enraged Osama Bin Laden and his minions) and into a decades long war against Iraq (1991-2011). Millions died in that futile war, whose conclusion left a battered Saddam turning to the Gulf Arabs, an unpaid bill in hand. Others will point to the political and financial subvention given to Saddam Hussein by the Atlantic states and the Gulf emirs to invade Iran and crush the Iranian Revolution of 1979. ![]() ![]() Some will take you back to 1953, when the US fired its first shot across the bow, taking out a democratically elected government in a CIA coup. If you ask Iranians, they will tell you that the war against Iran has already begun. ![]()
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