Marx on the "Anglo-Persian War"

The current propaganda war between Britain and Iran reminded me of this passage from an artical by Karl Marx entitled "Anglo-Persian War" that appeared in the New-York Daily Tribune on October 30, 1856:

So soon as the Company [i.e., the East India Company, acting as the foreign policy proxy for England] casts a greedy look on any of the independent sovereigns, or on any region whose political and commercial or whose gold and jewels are valued, the victim is accused of having violated this or that ideal or actual convention, transgressed an imaginary promise or restriction, committed some nebulous outrage, and then war is decalred, and the eternity of wrong, the perennial force of the fable of the wolf and the lamb, is again incarnadined in national history.