By reaffirming the legitimacy of President Ahmadinejad's election victory yesterday, the so-called Ayatollah Khamenei placed his theocracy on the same (im)moral plane as the "Great Satan" that had deprived the Iranian people of its duly elected Prime Minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, in 1953.
In order to understand the significance of Khamanei's decision, it helps to recall what the United States did in 1953 to earn the moniker of the "Great Satan".
For decades Iran had supplied Britain's and much of Europe's oil...
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