Enter Blackberrys and I-Phones and western fashion.
It’ll happen real soon. Just google images of any Iraqi city, and they’re modernizing as soon as their cash flow allows them.
It must be gnashing hell to be an Iranian, looking over the border at what your culture has ridiculed as backward Mesopotamian idiots now enjoying the economic, political and cultural freedoms that Iranians are denied.
Iran, you’re next - if you want to be.