Mansoor’s Reviews > Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam > Status Update

The 1980s witnessed the unprecedented growth of the radical Islamist movement, thanks principally to the Afghan War, the Islamisation programme of Pakistan’s General Zia, Saudi funding to Islamist causes around the world and Iranian sponsorship of a variety of Islamist groups – to all of which developments British policy had contributed in different ways.

During the 1979–81 US embassy hostage crisis in Iran, for example, the Carter administration had secretly released funds frozen in the US at the outbreak of the Iranian Revolution and most of the $3.5 billion in property held by the shah in the US.

From the very first day of the Iran–Iraq War, Britain sent millions of pounds worth of tank barrels and tank engines to Iran, calling them ‘non-lethal’ equipment, which helped to maintain the 890 Chieftain tanks and 250 Scorpion tanks the British had delivered to the shah during the 1970s.

او به یقین باید یکی از دوراندیش‌ترین سیاستمداران جهان با تجربه‌ای بی‌بدیل باشد. هیچ رهبر دیگری چنین پرتوان و با اشتیاق کشورش را هدایت نکرده است. او ایران را به سوی رنسانسی قرن بیستمی پیش می‌راند

مارگارت تاچر درباره‌ی محمدرضاشاه

Flush with oil money, the Saudis stepped up their bankrolling of Islamic organisations and charities around the world. During the 1970s the Saudi-controlled Muslim World League opened a raft of new offices abroad, while its Ministry for Religious Affairs printed and exported millions of Korans free of charge and distributed Wahhabi doctrinal texts among the world’s mosques.
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At least the author doesn't repeat the fetishistic lie of the left about Mossadegh being "democratically elected." 🤣🤣

اگرچه بریتانیا برای پیشبرد سیاست خارجی‌اش بیشتر با جریان‌های سنی همکاری کرده، از همدستی مقطعی با نیروهای شیعه نیز ابایی نداشته است؛ نیروهایی همچون شیعیان رادیکال ایران در دهه‌ی 1950 و در قبل و بعد انقلاب اسلامی 1979