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YN -> RE: Gun control - FAIL (4/23/2013 3:27:55 AM)
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The English and Russians and to a lesser extent the United States, and with other European nations and in particular France being bit players and their imperialism built the Iran you see today.
Iran (Persia) has one of the oldest histories as a nation on the planet. However for our purposes, their problems with the Russians, the English, and various supporting roles by Europeans and their colonials began in earnest in the 1700's. Russian seized various Persian provinces, The English seized various Persian territories. The French seized a few pieces of Persian property.
Most of this thievery did not occur peacefully. And the fighting and the naval blockades led to great famines where millions died.
This cumulated around 1900 with oil being found in Iran, and Imperial England and Imperial Russia arrogantly dividing Iran among themselves into two "spheres of influence" as detailed in the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907.
During WW1 the English, Russians and Turks occupied various parts of Iran. Following the war and when the Russians became the Soviet Union, the English attempted to make a "protectorate out of Iran. After this a military coup installed the Pahlavi dynasty, whose name graces the recent history of Iran. Additionally there was a great famine around from 1917-1921 which many in Iran (and elsewhere) credit the English and their empire for instigating and maintaining and which killed many millions (40% or Iran's population it is said.)
There were various revolts between the world wars, and in 1941 the English and the Russians again invaded, under the pretense of keeping Iran out of Axis influence.
They installed the man most call "the Shah" as their puppet. After the war, the Allied powers created the fiction the nation was a constitutional monarchy, and were unpleasantly surprised in 1951 when this fiction became fact, and the oil was nationalized.
A Anglo-American orchestrated coup occurred as a result, reinstalling the oil puppet Pahlavi and a long period of "martial law." This coup was highly resented by the Iranian public, as was the ensuing autocracy.
In 1979 Iran successfully revolted and became the "Islamic Republic" of today. They were then subject to attack by the Anglo-European and Saud and their Arab associates supported Iraq, and subject to various other Anglo-American instigated mischief.
After several centuries of fending off these foreign imperialists and thieves, and the deaths of many millions of their citizens the people of Iran developed a certain mind and extremely negative feelings and opinions about these foreign nations and their activities, ingrained in even their folklore.
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