I just viewed the first 15 minutes of this almost 50 minute video, and plan to return to it later for the rest. This is the second installment continuing a previous history of Persia/Iran through the rise of Islam. Several centuries are skipped and this chapter begins by discussing Persia’s struggle to balance relations between England and Russia in the 1800s and 1900s. Persians visited England in the 1800s and were impressed especially with the economic/industrial development and their efforts to create a nation composed of multiple ethnic groups—Scotch, Irish, Welsh, and English.
Around the time of the 1906 Constitution, an agreement was signed to divide areas of Iran into a British area in the south, and a Russian area in the north. Britian got the poor end of the deal, but soon had discovered oil which promising many future events, so I come here to encourage you all to learn more about how Iran arose to be a major Middle East power. [The British home office was so angry about the agreement signed by their people on the ground, it makes me wonder if the Russians had already begun their efforts to create spy’s and agents within the British government. This was a tense period with Russia also engaged in a war with Japan.]
The current hostilities began on Purim.
-PJ