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2009-06-30 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Fred 2009-06-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 TOPIX > CHAVEZ BELIEVES CIA CAUSING IRAN UNREST; + AZERBAIJAN ACCUSED OF FOMENTING "ORANGE REVOLUTION" IN IRAN.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-06-30 02:33|| 2009-06-30 02:33|| Front Page Top

#2 4 more years of no peace in the Middle East!!!

Posted by Paul2 2009-06-30 11:07|| 2009-06-30 11:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Serious question, Has there EVER been peace in the mideast? Even when the crusaders were in charge?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-06-30 12:26|| 2009-06-30 12:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, RJ, there was. From about 1450 to about 1890, the Ottoman Empire kept the peace over an area stretching from Albania to the Iranian border, over about half of North Africa, and all of the Arabian Peninsula. The Ottomans began to lose control in 1840, when the Greeks managed to gain their independence on a small portion of what is now Greece. The Ottoman Empire maintained peace by a complex system of bribes, assassinations, and religious supremacy. The end of WWI saw the Ottoman Empire broken into about a dozen entities, controlled by Britian or France, that gained independence beginning in the 1920's. That's the "map" - and the mess - we're currently living with.

Iran was actually fairly peaceful but backward until WWII, and the needs of the British and Americans to ship war material to the Russians. The Allies practically occupied the country, while building a road and rail net from Abadan to Baku. The US also interfered to keep the Russians from claiming a large part of Kurdish Iran as Russian territory following the war.

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