HWH UNIT 13 CHAPTER 20.3

 NOT an Arab state  Iranians are Persian and speak Farci  The Safavid Dynasty ( )  Unstable and basically run by Britain from

 Led a military takeover in 1921  Declared himself Shah in 1925

 British and Soviets force Reza Kahn to resign  His son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, takes over ( )  Western  Corrupt

 Mohammad Mosaddeq  Democratically elected Prime Minister  Nationalized Iran’s Oil  US and Britain opposed it  CIA overthrew Mosaddeq in 1953  Shah became a puppet of the West

 Ayatollah Khomeini  Islamic Republic  Hostages  Argo

 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  Nuclear Weapons?

 Also majority Shiite  Part of the Ottoman Empire until 1917  British Mandate until 1932  Independent in 1932  Kingdom of Iraq,  King Faisal I ( )  Many unstable governments and coups,

 Iraq invades Kuwait, 1990  US intervention

 Sunni vs. Shiite  Kurds