IRAN AND IRAQ HWH UNIT 13 CHAPTER 20.3
Feb 23, 2016
IRAN AND IRAQ
HWH UNIT 13CHAPTER 20.3
IRAN NOT an Arab state
Iranians are Persian and speak Farci The Safavid Dynasty (1501-1736) Unstable and basically run by Britain
from 1800-1925
REZA KHAN Led a military takeover in 1921
Declared himself Shah in 1925
AFTER WWII British and Soviets
force Reza Kahn to resign
His son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, takes over (1941-1979) Western Corrupt
AMERICAN INVOLVEMENT Mohammad Mosaddeq
Democratically elected Prime Minister
Nationalized Iran’s Oil US and Britain opposed it
CIA overthrew Mosaddeq in 1953 Shah became a puppet
of the West
THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION, 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini Islamic Republic Hostages Argo
THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR, 1980-88
IRAN TODAY Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Nuclear Weapons?
IRAQ Also majority Shiite Part of the Ottoman
Empire until 1917 British Mandate until 1932 Independent in 1932
Kingdom of Iraq, 1932-1958 King Faisal I (1932-39)
Many unstable governments and coups, 1963-1979
SADDAM HUSSEIN
THE PERSIAN GULF WAR, 1991 Iraq invades
Kuwait, 1990 US intervention
THE IRAQ WAR, 2003
ISSUES IN IRAQ Sunni vs. Shiite Kurds