How Thatcher betrayed Iran; a glimpse

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher betrayed the Iranian nation and government during her 11 years in office from 1979 to 1990, through aiding enemies of Iran throughout her reign.

Thatcher, as Britain’s first and only female premier, died yesterday of a stroke at the age of 87. She will be given a funeral procession equivalent to those given to Princess Diana in 1997 and the Queen Mother in 2002.

The UK government under Thatcher gave the green light to the then U.S. government under Ronald Reagan to launch an attack on Iran in response to the U.S. Den of Espionage incident in Tehran.

It was also under Thatcher government that terrorists invaded the Iranian embassy building in London and took 26 people hostage – mostly embassy staff, but several visitors and a police officer, who had been guarding the embassy.

The Iranian Embassy siege took place from 30 April to 5 May 1980, after a group of six armed terrorists, whose links to executed Iraqi dictator Saddam were confirmed, stormed the Iranian embassy in South Kensington, London.

The siege was ended when British special forces, the Special Air Service (SAS) stormed the building in an operation codenamed Operation Nimrod.

The Thatcher government used the incident as a propaganda stunt by providing live coverage of the whole operation in the British Broadcasting Corporations (BBC) to promote its public image.

During the rescue operation two Iranian diplomats were martyred one by the terrorists and the other during the ensuing measures inside the embassy building.

Meanwhile, the Thatcher government did not allow Iran to investigate the terrorists by killing five of them during the operation, and the last who survived was also prosecuted by the UK government and sentenced to 27 years in jail. Britain prevented Iran from attending the court sessions in which the terrorist was prosecuted and the roots of the terrorist attack were never unveiled.

The Thatcher government continued its political interfering measures against the Islamic Revolution. When Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the deposed Shah of Iran died in 1981, the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher issued a statement and sympathized with the toppled royal family of Iran.

Prime Minister Thatcher also gave her full support to Salman Rushdie, the author of the blasphemous book “the Satanic Verses”. Salman Rushdie, the blasphemous British author was sentenced to death by a fatwa (religious decree) issued by the Late Leader of the Islamic Revolution, the Late Imam Khomeini, because Rushdie insulted the great prophet of Islam, Prophet Mohammad (Peace Be Upon Him) in his book.

The UK government also fully supported the executed Iraqi dictator Saddam after he madly launched an invasion against the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1981.

The Thatcher government provided the Saddam regime of Iraq with state-of-the-art weaponry and constructed naval and aerial bases for the Iraqi army.

The UK companies also equipped the then Iraqi regime with chemical and biological weapons during its invasion of Iran.

Now that the so-called “Iron Lady” is dead, her death was cause to celebrate for thousands in Britain who recall her rule as the main reason for social unrest in the 1980s.

“That woman made my youth a misery. I think that she was to blame for most of the ills in society and most of the things that poor people and old people have been blamed for were her fault,” said one demonstrator.

Margaret Hilda Thatcher is gone but the damage caused by her fatally flawed politics sadly lingers on,” the National Union of Mineworkers, which Thatcher virtually destroyed during a failed year-long strike, said on its website. “Good Riddance.”

“I found her to be confrontational, dogmatic, abrasive; she attacked people in her own country and didn’t listen to people in her own party,” recalled Caspar Joseph, 51, a history teacher in Manchester. “She was destructive, nihilistic.

Members of various organizations including the Anti-Bedroom Tax Federation, the Communist Party, the Socialist Party, the Socialist Working Party, the International Socialist Group, were joined by members of the public to celebrate the demise of Baroness Thatcher.