1. They still represent European colonial power in much of the world.
2. They have shown tremendous weakness in the past concerning their kidnapped sailors (remember the female sailor being put in a Burks?).
3. Obama has made it clear that there is no longer a special relationship between the UK and the USA.
4. They have no capability on their own to stand up to Iran militarily. Their capability is a shadow of what it was during the Falklands (and it was weak then).
Angry accusations of provocative meddling in Iran’s post-election
Some ideas for headlines of papers/flyers spread throughout Iran:
Mullahs murder thousands protesting peacefully. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians missing. Mass graves found outside city...witnesses claim shootings of hundreds at a time who are murdered with machine guns while they fall into the pits dug to accommodate thousands of dead bodies.
We play nice while their propaganda eventually is believed in the Arab world. Common now, let’s get dirty