Evening Standard - London, April 4th, 2007
THE PLIGHT of the British sailors and marines held in Iran is merely the la test
episode in a long history of mutual suspicion. Many Iranians have never forgiven Britain for meddling in their affairs, from the coup of 1953 to the oppressive rule of the last Shah. And in the streets of Tehran, Britain is usually identified as the oil-greedy brains behind American power.
But the history of British involvement in Iran stretches far beyond modern oil politics to the pioneering Elizabethan age. The first recorded English visitor to the region was one Anthony Jenkinson, an intrepid trader who work...
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