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A number of observers, including the Shah, have written of rumours and allegations that the government of the United Kingdom has secretly supported "mullahs" (Shia clerics) in recent Iranian history, and in particular the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in his successful overthrow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. It is alleged that the 1979 Iranian revolution is a Western response to the Pahlavi's White revolution which was intended to bring benefits to Iran and its people, but was unfavorable to the landlords, clergy and the USA and UK that feared that Iran will become independent, thus hampering their further involvement.〔http://www.redmoonrising.com/Ikhwan/BritIslam.htm〕 Khomeini rejected the charges, 〔(Khomeini: Elite thought clerics obey U.K orders ) (dead link)〕 claiming it was the Shah who was a Western "agent" who had prevented the establishment of Islamic government in Iran until the revolution.〔Khomeini, ''Islamic Government'', (1981), (p.139, also p.27-28, p.34, p.38). (Quote: "The British imperialists penetrated the countries of the East more than 300 years ago. Being knowledgeable about all aspects of these countries, they drew up elaborate plans for assuming control of them". p.139)〕 ==Beliefs of Iranian public== BBC Persian journalist Hossein Shahidi has talked about "the deep-rooted belief" among Iranians "that Britain is behind every move in Iran," and in particular that the BBC radio is "credited with, or accused of, having brought about the downfall of" both Pahlavi kings, Mohammad Reza Shah and his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi whose thirty-seven-year rule was brought to an end by the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79.〔(Hossein Shahidi. 'BBC Persian Service 60 years on.' ) The Iranian. September 24, 2001〕 A survey of Iranian expatriates in Southern California found the leading explanation for the 1979 revolution to be foreign plots,〔 quoted in Kurzman, ''The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran'', (2004), p.13〕 A sinister connection between British India, the Iranian flag created after Iranian Islamic revolution, and Khomeini's ancestry, has been put forth by some secular Iranians (generally expatriates) who opposed the revolution, according to Iranian author Hooman Majd. Khomeini's paternal grandfather was an Indian who immigrated to Iran (to the town of Khomeini) in the early nineteenth century when India was a British colony. The stylized `Allah` (الله) on the post-Revolutionary Iranian flag, bears (according to the conspiracy theorists) "a remarkable similarity to the symbol of the Sikhs," whose historic homeland is the Punjab. Majd himself is unconvinced by the resemblance, seeing the issue instead as reflective of "my compatriot's love of and insatiable appetite for conspiracy theories." 〔Majd, ''The Ayatollah Begs to Differ'', (2008), p.167-8〕 Khomeini has also been accused of having had a British father. According to an article in Persian Journal mentioned in Forbes.com and elsewhere, Khomeini may have been the son of British adventurer William Richard Williamson, a convert to Islam known to Arab Muslims as Haji Abdullah al-Zobair. 〔(Hubble-Bubble Was Khomeini's Father A Brit? Melik Kaylan, 10.09.09 )〕〔(IRAN - "Who was the Ayatollah Khomeini?" May 3, 2006 )〕 Note that these whole theories don't have first-hand proofs. Reliable first-hand sources in Iran demonstrate these probable theories as propaganda. 〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「British–Ruhollah Khomeini conspiracy theory」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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