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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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A War on Iran Would be Different From Iraq, and Far, Far Worse

Zoltan Grossman CounterPunch
Since President Trump’s assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, widespread alarm has centered on whether he is again dragging us into another war like Iraq, to detract from his impeachment. The situation is even more potentially disastrous.
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