BBC | Adam Curtis
BP & The Axis of Evil: BP is accused of destroying the wildlife and coastline of America, but if you look back into history you find that BP did something even worse to America: They gave the world Ayatollah Khomeini. Of course there are many factors that led to the Iranian revolution, but back in 1951 the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company - which would later become BP - and its principal owner the British government, conspired to destroy democracy and install a western-controlled regime in Iran. The resulting anger and the repression that followed was one of the principal causes of the Iranian revolution in 1978/79 - out of which came the Islamist regime of Ayatollah Khomeini.
