Déjà vu in the Middle East?
| AN OUTSIDERS VIEW |
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| Ken Fuller |
As North Atlantic Treaty Organization(Nato) cheer leaders celebrated their apparent victory in Libya, former British Prime Minister Anthony Charles Lynton Blair indicated that he thought it might be a jolly good idea, as a next step, to have a spot of regime change in Syria and Iran.
As Western oil companies fly emissaries into Libya to claim their share of the spoils, it is worth remembering that Britain’s relations with Iran (formerly Persia) have also been dominated by that black substance, and Blair’s political forebears on both sides of the Atlantic have already demonstrated the perils of a foreign-backed coup in that country.
Although nominally independent, following World War II, Iran was under British influence, in particular due to the latter’s participation in the exploitation of its oil, a monopoly having been granted to British engineer William Knox D’Arcy in 1901. Oil was discovered two years later, and in 1905 D’Arcy became part-owner of the new British Oil Co. The British government bought D’Arcy out in 1908, and the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. was founded the following year. In 1923, it appointed Winston Churchill as a lobbyist..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110920com5.html
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