Editing John le Carré (section)

===Iran===
Le Carré was critical of Western governments' policies towards Iran. He said that Iran's actions are a response to being "encircled by nuclear powers" and by the way in which "we ousted [[Mohammad Mosaddegh|Mosaddeq]] through [[1953 Iranian coup d'état|the CIA and the Secret Service here across the way]] and installed the [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi|Shah]] and trained his ghastly secret police force in all the black arts, the [[SAVAK]]".<ref name="dn111010"/>

Le Carré feuded with [[Salman Rushdie]] over ''[[The Satanic Verses]]'', stating: "Nobody has a God-given right to insult a great religion and be published with impunity".<ref>{{cite news|title=The spy who came in from the cold|url=https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21677181-secretive-life-becomes-open-book-spy-who-came-cold|access-date=30 October 2015|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|date=30 October 2015|archive-date=30 October 2015|url-access=registration|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151030023357/http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21677181-secretive-life-becomes-open-book-spy-who-came-cold|url-status=live}}</ref>