UK supports policy linked to US, Israel: Rodney Shakespeare
Press TV has conducted an interview with Rodney Shakespeare, a political commentator in London, about British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond’s visit to Iran to reopen the UK Embassy in Tehran.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: So, here we have the reopening but Iran is cautiously entertaining this idea because of the mistrust that exists. Do you think that this mistrust is going to continue until the UK shows what it is all about when it comes to Iran?
Shakespeare: The Iranians are a very good-natured people; but there is no reason in logic or in history for them to forgive.
For one hundred years, the UK has been ripping off their resources. We smashed democracy in 1953. For 25 years, we supported the shah and SAVAK with its... torture methods, including baking and slicing people. We have totally opposed the democratic revolution in 1979. We are controlled by Zionism; and, in 2011, financial sanctions were imposed on a country which was not making a bomb and all our intelligence services said the same as indeed so did Mossad.
So, in the face of it, there is no reason to forgive; but events are moving on; and even though Philip Hammond, who is a Zionist, as are two thirds of the present government, would prefer not, the fact of the matter is the UK is now going to Tehran in the hope that we will get some trade out of this, though it may be too late because the UK is rather late in the game – isn’t it? – in doing what it ought to have done long time ago and sorting things out with Iran.
So, I welcome the visit of Hammond’s to Tehran. I think he ought to apologize for the behavior of the UK in the past.
Press TV: Philip Hammond took a step further prior to his visit and said that we are going to also try to see if Iran wants to cooperate on regional issues like fighting the Daesh terrorists, so forth and so on. Don’t you think that Philip Hammond is jumping the gun there?
Shakespeare: Excuse me; it is not about whether Iran wishes to cooperate. Iran fully wishes to cooperate. It is about the UK supporting a policy linked with the USA, Saudi Arabia and Israel, which is about suppressing any form of democracy, which is about supporting cruel, barbaric, medieval, totalitarian regimes like those in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
The one who is giving the lead – and the world is waking up to that – is Iran; and so it is the UK that is going to have to come off its high horse thinking that it rules everything, it owns everything, and it is doing what is right. The UK is behind the times and it ought to get down on its knees and apologize to Iran.
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