Posted on 03/01/2006 8:04:39 PM PST by freedom44
Watching his fellow countrymen observe the annual Shia Islamic mourning ceremony of Ashura, the disaffected Tehran taxi driver voiced a wish to convert to Christianity that may not have been as sincere as it was incongruous. But whatever his true ecclesiastical leanings, his beliefs about the source of the religious tyranny that so irked him about Iran were real. "It is England that has imposed these mullahs on us," the cabbie mused, resisting all protestations at the notion's absurdity.
The idea that the Islamic revolution was a plot hatched in Whitehall, and that its spiritual leader, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, was some sort of heavily disguised 007 in the secret service of Her Majesty's government does indeed seem weird. But not to many Iranians.
Suggestions that the convulsive events of 1979, which ushered in the Islamic republic, were manipulated and orchestrated by the British are widely accepted here as a given. It is a belief held, even before his reign was swept to oblivion in a revolutionary tidal wave, by the last shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.
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They are sadly mistaken. It was an Antarctic conspiracy, not British one.
When the Shah bailed out; the Iranins had a referendum - Islamic Republic? yes or no?
They voted yes for the Islamic Republic.
Khomeni became the religious leader and set some pretty tough Islamic standards on the country.
Hard to figure out how representative of the population the pro Americans are. - Tom
I hate to say it, but it was more the U.S.' fault- at least as far as President Carter's actions.
The British? No, it was the French and Jimmy Carter.
French Ping!
Jimmy Carter doesn't think that he's to blame either.
The article may be dead wrong but isn't it nice to see someone else blamed for an arab problem?
We all know that it couldn't be fault of the actual principals, the Iranians. It has to be the fault of a western country.
Everything bad that has ever happened to the arabs is someone else's fault. Now I get it.
That is weird because the #1 westerner responsible for the fall of the Shah was Jimmmy Carter aka "Dhimmi Kadr".
Jimmy Carter is from Plains Georgia, not Britain. More than anyone else, he is responsible for the coming to power of the Mad Mullahs. All in the name of Human Rights. The Shah was big violator, the Mullahs almost infinitely worse.
Hmmm, maybe it wasn't such a good idea to put the Brits down in Basrah.
Muslims never take responsibility. They're victims and have been since the eighth century. Same mindset, same stupidity.
Do any muslims anywhere ever take responsibility for their own self created hellhole countries??? Do they always passively blame others???
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