AHC: "Ba'athist" Iran

With Iran having an alternate fate in my ST TL (Communist in this case), I was thinking "WI: Iran had a Ba'athist-style government instead of the Shia-islamist it has IOTL".

Presumably, it would need for the modernist tendancies of the last Shah to either be significantly reduced or butterflied away entirely.

Any thoughts?

.....well Ba'ath is a pan-Arab idea and Iranians aren't Arabs... I mean maybe some how you get a Arab Minority Government in Iran (like the Sunni Minority in Iraq or the Alawite minority in Syria) but that seems very unlikely

"Ba'ath" in Farsi would be "Rnsans"

Tudeh manages to launch a coup, and becomes a Soviet backed socialist client state.

EDIT: I had just remembered that there was a Nationalist Party that had peaked in the Abadan Crisis, perhaps this is along the lines you're looking for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Iranist_Party

black angel said:

.....well Ba'ath is a pan-Arab idea and Iranians aren't Arabs... I mean maybe some how you get a Arab Minority Government in Iran (like the Sunni Minority in Iraq or the Alawite minority in Syria) but that seems very unlikely

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That's why I put it in inverted commas.

M. Adolphe Thiers said:

Tudeh manages to launch a coup, and becomes a Soviet backed socialist client state.

EDIT: I had just remembered that there was a Nationalist Party that had peaked in the Abadan Crisis, perhaps this is along the lines you're looking for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Iranist_Party

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Ok, that sounds about right. Thanks.

Analytical Engine said:

With Iran having an alternate fate in my ST TL (Communist in this case), I was thinking "WI: Iran had a Ba'athist-style government instead of the Shia-islamist it has IOTL".

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Ba'athism is a pan-Arab racialist ideology strongly influenced by Fascism and Nazism. Thus a Ba'athist regime in Iran is as impossible as, say, an Islamic shari'ah regime in India.

Presumably, it would need for the modernist tendancies of the last Shah to either be significantly reduced or butterflied away entirely.

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Why? Ba'athism, like Fascism, was a modernist ideology.

Actually, one could have a Ba'ath-like regime in Iran, based on Iranian ethnic chauvinism, militarism, and an authoritarian state headed by the Shah (or some other Shah).