Dean's World

I had long known that Arafat was once a KGB stooge, but I never realized how many other Middle Eastern leaders had also been KGB operatives.

Take this, for example:

The young girl is beautiful, and the Shah, receiving Iranian students during a visit to Paris, cannot but notice her. The man who heads the office for Iranian students abroad pushes the girl forward, and sings her praises to pin the Shah down in front of her.

Love at first sight? Perhaps , perhaps not. But a few months later the student girl with a charming smile marries the Shah, in a One Thousand and One Night ceremony, to become Empress Farah Pahlavi.

What neither the Shah nor Farah knew at the time, however, was that their “chance encounter” had been carefully planned by the Soviet secret service, the KGB, through one of their “assets”, an Iranian diplomat named Jahangir Tafazoli, who headed the Iranian students’ office at the time.

But it wasn't just Iran. Crossroads Arabia has more.

There's yet another thing we can add to the list of reasons for why the Middle East has been horribly burdened with bad governments.