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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45084)	11/29/2003 4:52:16 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) of 50167

Hi Iqbal, Re: they need to heap the reasons of their failures on someone else. In the recent century it happens to be the US; in the last century it was colonialism. I'm wondering if perhaps you've had a chance to read Stephen Kinzer's "All the Shah's Men"? amazon.com I'm in the midst of reading it right now, and I'm finding it to be thoroughly convincing that U.S. conniving in the internal affairs of Iran for the sake of the forerunner to British Petroleum was indeed at the root of much of the chaos in Iran over the last half of the 20th Century. By stifling a nascent democracy and nationalism in Iran and replacing it with a puppet and a despot like Shah Reza Pahlavi, the U.S. set up the course of anti-Americanism and Middle East terrorism in a classic case of "blowback". Kinzer does an excellent job of differentiating the Zoroastrian roots of Shi'ite Islam as practiced in Iran from the more fundamentalist and militant Islam as practiced by the Saudi/Beduouin Wahhabists. You might find the book to be useful in further drilling down into the essentially fractured nature of Islam which you seem to sometimes paint with, IMHO, rather too broad a brushstroke. :) Salaams, Ray

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