UK’S past will not be forgotten

DAVID Crawford (Letters, April 17) sums up perfectly the hypocrisy of the UK Government’s attitude to the conflict in Palestine and the wider region.

Iran’s only decent government under Prime Minister Mosaddegh was toppled in a coup engineered by British agents and the CIA. Mosaddegh had had the temerity to claim that oil in Iran belonged to Iran. He was replaced, with UK support, by the Shah who ruled Iran with the aid of his vicious secret police Savak. Savak was created by the CIA and its agents trained by, of all people, Israel’s Mossad.

The Shah’s hated dictatorship may have suited the UK and the United States but was rejected by the Iranians and replaced with the present tyranny. The UK backed Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship and supported his war against Iran before turning on its ally and joining the United States in the invasion and destruction of Iraq.

The UK’S fingerprints are all over the disastrous modern history of the Middle East and yet the UK continues to back tyranny and genocide, arming the aggressors and going to the aid of the already-powerful Israel when it is attacked but not lifting a finger to protect the helpless Palestinians.

Mr Crawford is right. It is a disgrace and it will not be forgotten by the peoples of the region who have had to endure it. Israel thinks that its actions will bring it security. The reverse is true and we will have to share in the repercussions.