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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob
One of the things which has surprised me over the past few days, while reading about this story, is the fact that in Iran (or Persia, as it used to be known) We British are more hated and reviled than the Americans. The Persians, afflicted with third world paranoia as they are, tend to regard the UK as the single source of all the ills that ail them.
Their dislike and distrust of us apparently dates back to a time when Persia was a buffer state between the British in India and the government of Imperial Russia. It was of course all our fault that the late Shah's father was deposed in the thirties and again all our fault that the late Shah turned out to be such a repressive monster when we restored him to the Peacock Throne. We raped their miserable desert country, stole their oil and refused to say "please" and "thank you". !
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Sorry Acrylic-bob , but I beg to differ , Having spent a number of years living in Iran , (living under both the Shah's and the Khomeni regimes) I can say that the Iranians 'hate' us no more than we used to hate the Germans , But they have something called National Pride , something the English seem to have lost, unless it involves kicking some poor sods head in at a football match . The average Iranian wants nothing more than to make a better life for his family than anyone else in the world . there used to be a joke on the streets of Iran , that if you look under a Mullahs beard it says made in England , a cynical but true view of British meddling in the affairs of an independant state . You can hardly blame them for wanting some recompense ,the numbers killed in action during the Iran-Iraq war were astronomical and these casulties were caused by British/American supplied arms.