The Enemy That Never Left

IRANIANS CONTINUE TO BLAME THE BRITISH FOR NEARLY EVERYTHING.


Michael Slackman writes today that many Iranians, rather than seeing Israel as the one pulling American foreign-policy strings, see the British as the shadowy puppetmasters of U.S. foreign policy. What a refreshing change!

It all fits, of course: The U.S. was also a British colony. Perhaps U.S. diplomats should emphasize this point of solidarity in the next encounter with their Persian counterparts at the UN.