Iraq Arabs Iran Persians Iraq Kurdistan In an
Iraq (Arabs) & Iran (Persians)
Iraq
Kurdistan
In an area north of the city of Al-Basrah, Iraq, which borders Iran, a former wetland was drained and walled off. Littered with minefields and gun emplacements, it was a staging area for Iraqi military exercises under Sadam.
Iraq’s southern marshes, a Shi’a area, were drained by Sadam Hussein, a Sunni
Kuwait, 1991
Bedouin area, southern Iraq
Over-grazed landscape, Iraq
Returning city to mayor of Tuz
Flat bread party, Iraq
Desert Storm, Kuwait, 1991
Kuwait and Iraq border
Iranian women, Newsweek Feb. ‘ 06
Zagros Mountains, southern Iran
Persian King Darius’s tomb, Naqsh-e Rostam_Fars, Iran (near Shiraz)
Esfahan, Iran: Mosque entrance and interior
Persian Empire, 500 BC
1953 US-backed overthrow of Muhammad Mossadegh 1951 The 1953 Iranian coup d’etat deposed the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. In a plan called Operation Ajax, the United States' CIA organized and executed the overthrow of the nationalist government of Prime Minister Mossadegh, at the request of, and with support from the British, who resented Mossadegh’s nationalization of Iranian oil interests, shutting the Brits out. Reza Pahlavi, the Shah, and the monarch to whom Mossadegh pledged fealty, went on to rule Iran for 26 years until he was overthrown in 1979. Mossadegh was imprisoned and died a few years later under house arrest.
The Shah of Iran, U. S. installed Emperor of Iran, 1941 -1979. Deposed in the Iranian Revolution and succeeded by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who made Iran an Islamic State.
Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s current (2017) President, a moderate. Ahmed Ahmadinejad, former Iranian president, & Holocaust denier
Tehran, 1964
Tehran, 2009
Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, defeated in rigged election, hiding
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