The UK funded BBC - the government which overthrew Mossadegh and Iran's parliament with the help of ayatollah Borujerdi in the 1950s when the elected officials starting making moves to take Iranian oil back for Iranians, and away from the UK.

Looks like the British (and the US, and of course Israel) are eager to try to overthrow the Iranian government again. For very liberal, humanitarian reasons of course.

“To simplify greatly, the strategy of non-violence aims first to cause disruption (non-violently) in order both to draw attention but also in order to bait state overreaction. The state’s overreaction then becomes the ‘spectacular attack’ which broadcasts the movement’s message, while the group’s willingness to endure that overreaction without violence not only avoids alienating supporters, it heightens the contrast between the unjust state and the just movement. That reaction maintains support for the movement, but at the same time disruption does not stop: the movements growing popularity enable new recruits to replace those arrested (just as with insurgent recruitment) rendering the state incapable of restoring order. The state’s supporters may grow to sympathize with the movement, but at the very least they grow impatient with the disruption, which as you will recall refuses to stop. As support for state repression of the movement declines (because repression is not stopping the disruption) and the movement itself proves impossible to extinguish (because repression is recruiting for it), the only viable solution becomes giving the movement its demands.”

https://acoup.blog/2026/02/13/collections-against-the-state-...