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Senior Cleric Asks Gov't to Lodge Complaint against Britain for WWI Invasion of Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior cleric and Friday Prayers leader in Southern Iran called on the government to lodge a complaint with international legal bodies against Britain's invasion of Bushehr province during the World War I.
"The documents of Britain's inhuman actions and crimes during the invasion of Bushehr should be presented to the international court in the Hague and other international and legal circles so that the country will be convicted and defamed in the world," Bushehr's Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Gholam Ali Safayee said on Sunday.
Safayee said that people in the Bushehr province have filed a complaint against Britain and have presented it to the Foreign Ministry to be submitted to the UN secretary-general for further investigations at the relevant international bodies.
He made the remarks, referring to the British invasion on a historical place located in Delvar, 45km South of Bushehr, an Iranian city near the Persian Gulf. Delvar is the center of the littoral township of Tangestan municipality and the birth-place of Rais Ali Delvari. Delvari played an important role in the Iranian people's resistance against the British forces during the World War I.
Rais Ali Delvari was a national hero of Southern Iran, who organized popular resistance against the British troops, which had invaded Iran in 1915.
Britain has long been meddling in Iran's domestic affairs through various means, including military aggression, coup de tat, hatching plots and conspiracies and provoking Iran's neighbors, all throughout the last century.
In a most recent case, London sought to stage a regime change plan through stoking unrests after Iran's 2009 presidential elections. Iran expelled two British diplomats and arrested a number of local staffs of the British embassy in Tehran after documents and evidence substantiated London's interfering role in stirring presidential post-election riots in Iran in 2009.
In one of the court hearing sessions, British embassy's local staff in Tehran Hossein Rassam, who was charged with spying, admitted cultivating networks of contacts in the opposition movement using a £300,000 budget and confessed that the local staff of the embassy had attended protests against June 2009's presidential election results along with two British diplomats, named in court as Tom Burn and Paul Blemey, and that he had attended meetings with the defeated opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi alongside Burn.
"The documents of Britain's inhuman actions and crimes during the invasion of Bushehr should be presented to the international court in the Hague and other international and legal circles so that the country will be convicted and defamed in the world," Bushehr's Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Gholam Ali Safayee said on Sunday.
Safayee said that people in the Bushehr province have filed a complaint against Britain and have presented it to the Foreign Ministry to be submitted to the UN secretary-general for further investigations at the relevant international bodies.
He made the remarks, referring to the British invasion on a historical place located in Delvar, 45km South of Bushehr, an Iranian city near the Persian Gulf. Delvar is the center of the littoral township of Tangestan municipality and the birth-place of Rais Ali Delvari. Delvari played an important role in the Iranian people's resistance against the British forces during the World War I.
Rais Ali Delvari was a national hero of Southern Iran, who organized popular resistance against the British troops, which had invaded Iran in 1915.
Britain has long been meddling in Iran's domestic affairs through various means, including military aggression, coup de tat, hatching plots and conspiracies and provoking Iran's neighbors, all throughout the last century.
In a most recent case, London sought to stage a regime change plan through stoking unrests after Iran's 2009 presidential elections. Iran expelled two British diplomats and arrested a number of local staffs of the British embassy in Tehran after documents and evidence substantiated London's interfering role in stirring presidential post-election riots in Iran in 2009.
In one of the court hearing sessions, British embassy's local staff in Tehran Hossein Rassam, who was charged with spying, admitted cultivating networks of contacts in the opposition movement using a £300,000 budget and confessed that the local staff of the embassy had attended protests against June 2009's presidential election results along with two British diplomats, named in court as Tom Burn and Paul Blemey, and that he had attended meetings with the defeated opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi alongside Burn.
