The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
Interpretation
The involvement of Western powers in Iran's political affairs can have long-lasting consequences.
Salman Rushdie's quote reflects on the significant role that Western intervention played in the political landscape of Iran, particularly in the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. This action set off a chain of events that culminated in the Iranian Revolution, illustrating how foreign interference can destabilize governments and lead to unforeseen and revolutionary changes in a nation.
In practice
In a discussion about international relations, one might cite this quote to emphasize the ripple effects of foreign interventions.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that there is something they are all attached to besides self-aggrandizement and our pocketbooks. ... Government is not a machine with parts; it's an organism. When does an intestine quit being an intestine and start becoming an asshole?
A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.
There does not have to be trade-off between growth and social protection. A democracy does not mean much if it doesn't respond to the needs and will of its people.
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Scotland is not a region of the U.K.; Scotland is a nation, and if we cannot protect our interests within a U.K. that is going to be changing fundamentally, then that right of Scotland to consider the options of independence has to be there.
There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast.
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