{"id":24827,"date":"2019-07-23T08:41:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T07:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24827"},"modified":"2019-07-23T08:41:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T07:41:28","slug":"why-does-iran-hate-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24827","title":{"rendered":"Why does Iran hate Britain?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>They blame us (and the Russians) for the Persian famine of 1917-1919 when some two million (out of a population of 10M) died. Britain and Russia occupied the country at the time. More information <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Persian_famine_of_1917\u20131919\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They remember that we (and the Americans) emgineered a coup in 1953. This overthrew the democratically elected government of  Mohammad Mosaddegh and restored the rule of the shah.  More information <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27\u00e9tat\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, British Royal Marines helped detain an Iranian tanker in waters off the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, after Gibraltar&#8217;s government said it believed the tanker was transporting oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions. More information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-49069083\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actually, many Iranians &#8211; especially in the cities where support for the regime is weakest &#8211; are well-disposed towards the British (and other Western nations) as I found when I visited the country in 2009. An account of my trip <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Iran.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They blame us (and the Russians) for the Persian famine of 1917-1919 when some two million (out of a population of 10M) died. Britain and Russia occupied the country at the time. More information here. They remember that we (and the Americans) emgineered a coup in 1953. This overthrew the democratically elected government of Mohammad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24827"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24836,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24827\/revisions\/24836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}