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Article: Cultural imperialism Khomeini's target
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 26, 1989
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The British are now saying that they miscalculated last year in
opening relations with Iran in the hope that Iran had somehow
changed. Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe has now concluded that a
normal relationship with Iran is "neither possible nor sensible."
Why? Because Iran, that twisted country whose sinister
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has called for the death of writer Salman
Rushdie, is not a "normal" country. So Britain brought its diplomats
home last week, and the New York Times noted perceptively how Iran
"has a strange and disturbing ability to upset public opinion and
even circumscribe domestic freedom in the West."
The Brits and the Times are certainly onto something. ...