Today was the first time I saw a British newspaper mentioning what is normally considered a taboo in the UK: the toppling of the Iranian democracy by the British in 1953.

Mosaddeq, the democratically elected prime minister, was a threat to British hegemony over Iranian oil. As a result, the British government of the time manipulated the Americans to believe that Mosaddeq was a communist supporter. Together with the Americans, the British organised a coup that outset Mosaddeq from power, destroyed the newly established democracy, and planted the seeds for the Muslim revolution that turned Iran into a fundamentalist state.

Just in case you like blaming the Americans for their doings...