UK’s Former Foreign Secretary Lord David Owen said he had warned during Iran’s 1979 revolution that “the coming rule of the mullahs would be far worse than the rule of the shah in terms of human rights.” He stressed that the UK should finally acknowledge its leading role in the 1953 coup that toppled Iran’s last democratically elected leader, for the sake of Britain’s credibility and the Iranian reform movement, according to the British newspaper, The Guardian.
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