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I loathe the Tories as much as you do. To play party politics with this one is a tad disingenuous though. It's British Foreign Policy, regardless of whether it's Labour or Tories at the helm. Anyone who dares step out of line is instantly labelled as a terrorist sympathiser, as we've seen very...

Ooh, thank you. Do I get a tick for my homework Sir? FFS! Have a look at yourself.

Yes, nice. Do you realise that were it not for her determined and loving husband she, and others, would still not be free? Our Government even tried gaslighting him when he told them he was going public with the back story. Successive Governments had a secrecy order on it that eventually got...

My bleeding heart Socialist rant had nothing whatsoever to do with Iranians. I know full well what the Shah was about. As did the UK/US of course. It was a personal rant regarding this forum as it happens that I allowed to boil over. It's a bit obscure, and I shouldn't really have included it.

No it wasn't. The UK had stalled on paying back what was owed long long before sanctions joined in with the Imperialist game.

Well it certainly wasn't Total Football that's for sure.

If the right wingers on this thread cared to listen to the programme on Radio 4 that I posted a link to, I think it would be hard to label her as 'ungrateful' to the British taxpayer, and especially to the British Government. Why should she be! She is yet another totally innocent victim in the...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014fzy Nazanin All 5 episodes now edited into an hour long broadcast that aired tonight. Will be available on BBC Sounds, but can't seem to share link directly from the app. Recommended listening for the background to this whole sad affair.

Are those that know that this has 43 years of history behind it touchy too? Or can we all just rest easy knowing that BJ is to blame? Nothing changes. Same old colonial mindset, and that's regardless if it's Tories or those that claim to be 'bleeding heart Socialists'.