Wait. Key allies?
When did this happen. I could swear they hated each other like Montagues and Capulets.
Ten year war ring a bell?
Wait. Key allies?
When did this happen. I could swear they hated each other like Montagues and Capulets.
Ten year war ring a bell?
Well ya see the brilliant invasion of Iraq had, among other GREAT outcomes, the result of making a GREAT foil to Iran now a BFF to Iran.
I hope the temperature adjuster on the bed that the bushes and sauds have to share in hell is set at 1,000,000 degrees.
BTW, how the heck are ya? :)
That was between Saddam and the Ayatollah.
Geopolitical lesson - the Iranians and the Mesopotamians have been interconnected for 2500 years. Right from 500 BC to the 1800s most “Iranian” empires had their capitals near “Iraq” - Ctesiphon (a suburb of Baghdad) etc.
Iraq had Sunnis as the elite and Shia as the underclass. Iran from the 1700s had the Shia as the elite. The Safavids forcibly converted Iran to Shia’ism and kept its holy site at Najaf and Karbala in what is now Iraq.
In the 60s Iraq and Iran were more or less at peace.
Saddam was a secular monster but with a Sunni background so he feared Iranians as potential rulers. When the Shah was overthrown, he saw the chance to strike.
That led to the 8 year war which ended in a stalemate. Note the 8 year war actually cemented the Ayatollahs in Iran as they were able to portray themselves as the safeguard of the nation. A US attack on Iran would do the same now. In contrast the past 20 years of boycott have led to mosques being empty on Friday and most people being anti-Ayatollah.
Its a joke. Get it? Iran’s Shia proxy wants to negotiate between its Shia masters and the US - what could be fairer and more impartial? HHAHAHA