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