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How Britain Helped Iran’s Islamic Regime Destroy Its Left-Wing Opposition

Mark Curtis and Phil Miller Daily Maverick (South Africa)
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran’s first Supreme Leader
According to declassified files, in 1983 Britain (and the CIA) helped Iran’s new Islamic regime crush the last opposition to its rule, providing information that was used to arrest and execute hundreds of members of Iran’s communist Tudeh Party.

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Ancient African Genomes Offer Glimpse Into Early Human History

Ewen Callaway Nature
Today, people in sub-Saharan Africa are the most genetically diverse in the world. Newly deciphered genomes of four African children who died between 4 and 10 thousand years ago have some surprising implications for the period before then, and since.