iran: the revolution that shook the world

Some (including it seems, the Shah himself, dying of cancer in Egypt in 1980) believed that the Americans and the British created the revolution. . . ... This was accompanied by British control and exploitation of Iranian oil from 1908 to 1953, and followed by the coup that removed Mohammad..

europe: trying to legitimize iran's regime

Forty years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa demanding the head of Salman Rushdie, the British-Indian novelist who authored 'The Satanic Verses'. ... Forty years after the fatwa, 'No young artist of Rushdie's range and gifts would dare write a modern version of The Satanic Verses today, and if..

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