By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

     

“Not my king. “Down with the crown”. “Abolish the monarchy.”

These were among the vociferous chants of protestors in London and other towns and cities of Britain on Saturday when the aging 74-year old King Charles III was formally crowned at Windsor Castle eight months after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.

      Similar slogans echoed in far off Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, where the people are explicitly saying that they are not the subjects of any king or queen.     

It is rightly said the monarch of the so-called United Kingdom (whether king or queen) does not rule, but reigns as the symbolic head of state. 

Yet there is so much dissatisfaction amongst the British masses regarding the uselessness of the monarchy which thrives on the tax-payers’ money and leads a lavish life of expensive but obsolete ceremonies to fool the simpletons, besides indulgence in wild parties, debauchery, free ‘royal’ class trips around the world, and, of course, without the least regard for the slumping economy and the hard times citizens are facing. 

The bottom line is that: the days of the monarchy, even if it is constitutional, are long over, and the only system ensuring people’s aspirations is republican, minus the unnecessary multi-billion spending of public funds for maintaining the moribund monarchy.

The crafty British politicians, however, pretend that theirs is the oldest public representative system called the ‘mother of parliaments’ which ensures the rights of their citizens, and promotes peace and diplomacy with the world countries. 

The truth is entirely different as attested by the tyrannical colonial past of Britain during which these same parliamentarians plundered the world. 

They imposed the ‘Raj’ on the Subcontinent to loot its rich resources (including the priceless Kohinoor [mountain of light in Persian] diamond); milked Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South, East, and West Africa, the Caribbean islands, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and Sri Lanka; siphoned off the oil wealth of Arabia, planted the European Zionists in Palestine, carved out the artificial kingdoms of Jordan and Iraq for their protégés and installed on the Peacock Throne in Tehran as king (a servant in reality) an illiterate soldier of obscure parentage called Reza Khan. 

The Pahlavi tyrant was kicked out by his British masters in 1941 and replaced by his more slavish son Mohammed Reza, who in the photographs of the Tehran Conference during World War II is seen standing like an obedient servant in front of the seated British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin. 

In other words, these self-styled elected representatives of the people of Britain have never respected the rights and liberties of the people of other countries and their elected representatives.

Here, our focus is on Iran, which was subjected to British colonial tyranny from the 19th century onwards and saw large territories of the country detached.

Examples include Herat (once the Khorasani capital) which the British merged with Afghanistan, the southern Caucasus region which because of British treachery was annexed by Tsarist Russia, the eastern parts of Baluchestan which Britain added to its Indian Empire, and Bahrain in the Persian Gulf.

True, all this has become part of history and the Islamic Republic, as the system of government based on the popular vote of the Iranian people, is not after expansionism, but respects the will of the people of the above-mentioned regions.

What we like to point out is the continued hostile attitude of the British rulers towards the Iranian people because of the throwing into the dustbin of history the British-installed Pahlavi potentate in 1979.

For the past 44 years, these so-called representatives of the British people have never ceased their enmity (including sanctions and wild propaganda) against the popular religious system of the Islamic Republic and the aspirations of the Iranian people.

It is another thing that London has not succeeded in its role as loyal lieutenant of the Great Satan (the US), thanks to the resolve of the Iranian Muslim masses who have turned British dreams of domination into nightmares. 

The fact, however, cannot be denied that the chronic crises in Palestine, Kashmir, Myanmar, and other parts of the world are due to the treachery of Britain, which continues to occupy the Malvinas islands of Argentina and was comrade-in-crimes of the US in the invasion and occupation of oil rich Iraq, besides complicity in the suppression of the people of Bahrain and the 8-year war against the people of Yemen.