Short history thread - Iran history 101.
1- Ancient Iran is known to many as "Persia". You might have heard of "Cyrus the Great". He founded the Persian empire. A short history here..👇🏼
history.com/topics/ancient…
2- You may heard of the Greek King Leonidas & his 300 Spartans. Well, the bad guys in that battle were the Persians, led by King Xerxes..
historyextra.com/period/ancient…
3- The Persian Empire later became the Seleucid Empire (after conquest by Alexander the Great). This later became the Pathian Empire, then later the Sassinian Empire.
Good history of all that here if interested..👇🏼
sutori.com/story/ancient-…
4- This BBC article from last year gives a good history timeline from the fall of Sassinian Empire to present..
This basically gets us current to last year. Let's go deeper on a few notable events along the way.
bbc.com/news/world-mid…
5- A 1953 coup led to Iran becoming a pro-Western nation. The leader of Iran after this was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, otherwise known as "The Shah of Iran".
6- In 2013, it was revealed the U.S. CIA orchastrated this coup..
I guess foreign election interference is Ok when our side does it.
theguardian.com/world/2013/aug…
7- The Shan increasingly "Westernized" Iran. However, this was too much change for the nation's cultural and religous traditionalists. There is a nation-building lesson here.
8- Ultimately, the frustration with Westernization led to the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
There is a terrific pictorial hisotry here from the time of The Shah coming to power to the point of the Iranian Revolution..👇🏼
businessinsider.com/iran-before-th…
9- There are many who criticize then U.S. President Jimmy Carter for his tepid leadership leading up to the Iranian Revolution.
@DineshDSouza wrote about it here in 2007 & has been tweeting this critcism today..👇🏼
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content…
10- Here are Dinesh's tweets re Jimmy Carter, who per Dinesh practiced "nincompoopery"..👇🏼
11- Somewhat off-topic, but Jimmy Carter was pretty much terrible at everything.
More on his legacy here..👇🏼
12- The Iranian Revolution led to the Iranian hostage crises of 1979 - 1981. More on that here (short thread)..👇🏼
13- Iran has been pain the arse for U.S. ever since. I'll return you to the BBC timeline story for events to present day..
bbc.com/news/world-mid…
14- Thus here we are. Trump & his Admin are cleaning up a mess that arguably goes back to 1953, most certainly goes back to 1979.
The idiotic Obama Iran nuclear treaty didn't help, but that's another thread for another day.
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