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No more glory days for the Old Fox |
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by Hassan Hanizadeh MEHRNEWS.com Entered into the database on Tuesday, October 04th, 2005 @ 13:36:21 MST |
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Middle Eastern people will never forget the colonial record of Britain
or the Old Fox’s efforts to loot their natural wealth. Hundreds of years ago, Britain began its cultural attack on the Middle East, Africa,
and the Indian subcontinent in order to create divisions between nations and divide
the world into small weak countries. Britain encouraged an increase in slavery in Africa and transferred hundreds
of thousands of African slaves to the Americas, where it continued to violate
their human rights in the cruelest manner. In the Indian subcontinent, Britain fomented sectarian tension, robbed the
national wealth, and forced thousands of Indians to immigrate to various parts
of the world. In the Middle East, Britain created the Zionist regime to deal with the rising
Islamist wave and to undermine regional nations’ efforts to establish
Islamic unity. The ominous declaration of the then British foreign minister Arthur James Balfour
in October 1917 was a turning point for the Middle East since Britain, with
the help of the Zionist Agency, soon began forcing Palestinians to leave their
own land and encouraging Jews to immigrate to Palestine from different parts
of the world. In Iran, the insidious interference of colonial Britain in the process of the
Constitutional Movement in the early twentieth century led to the return of
dictatorship, and the ill-omened coup of Reza Khan Mirpanj (the founder of the
Pahlavi dynasty) was actually a plot against the Iranian nation devised by London.
Also, after the defeat of the Ottomans in Iraq in 1916, Britain decided to
take control of the country by creating the monarchy and installing King Faisal
I. The presence of British forces in the oil-rich Basra region of southern Iraq
paved the way for British Petroleum (BP) to exploit the natural resources of
the Iraqi nation. In the same region, Britain tried to create division among the nomads in order
to trigger a civil war. However, thanks to the awareness of Iraqi tribal leaders,
Britain’s plots were neutralized. And now, after decades, Britain is again becoming nostalgic about the days
of empire, when the sun never set on the British flag. Along these lines, after the fall of Baghdad, British forces were deployed
in southern Iraq to once again try to realize their old dream by fomenting divisions
between the inhabitants of the region. Britain’s main objective is looting the region by dismembering southern
Iraq through the creation of a U.S.-British oil cartel led by one of Iraq’s
neighboring Arab countries. In order to reach this goal, London has dispatched MI6 spies to southern Iraq
to create tension in the region. The recent tensions in Basra and southern Iran were also the result of British
interference. However, the plots failed in Iran due to the awareness of the
residents of Khuzestan. Britain then tried to pressure Iran by ratifying a resolution against it at
the most recent session of the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors
in order to isolate the Islamic Republic. But despite all these efforts, regional nations will never be deceived by the
old colonialist power, and it is Britain that will become isolated in the international
arena because the world has changed dramatically since the 19th century. The Iranian nation is well aware of Britain’s treacherous plots
and is not afraid to reduce economic and political relations with London because
the United Kingdom would suffer the most damage in such a turn of events. |