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Perhaps someone with a better knowledge of the Iran-Iraq War can enlighten on this issue. Iran pushed Iraq out of Khuzestan culminating in what would be known as the Liberation of Khorramshahr with thousands of Iraqis captured and would signal the start of the Iranian invasion including the...

With a POD no earlier than 1745 have Iran become a Great Power by 2024 (have to be around level of Germany, France, Japan, etc)

The Safavid empire was the last Persian state to rule Iraq/Mesopotamia, whose history was linked with Iran's for centuries. Their rule over it was relatively short, however, and they lost control of the region to the Ottoman Empire during the 1530s. They briefly reconquered it during the reign...

What if, after seizing power in Iran and the Arab world, the Buyids and Famitids began a campaign of forced conversion against the public ? In an effort to alter the demographic landscape such that Shia Islam would eventually overtake Sunni Islam as the predominant religion in the Middle East...

Following their rise to power in Iran in the 16th century, the Safavid dynasty initiated a campaign of forced conversion against the Iranian populace, seeking to create a new demographic environment in which Shia Islam would replace Sunni Islam as the nation's religious majority. Over the course...

Choose any Era of MEK you want Maoists? Baathist puppet organization? American puppet organization? A thing you need to know is that they have a reputation as "the Iranian Khmer rouge" so I will leave you with that. Choose whatever you want. By the way MEK is a maoist-Islamist death and sex...

Fair warning, my knowledge of this subject is fairly limited. While the overthrow of Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh is seen primarily as an American operation, the country whose government was most invested in his demise was actually Great Britain - the main target of Mossadegh's...

Mossadegh's right-hand man and foreign minister, Hossein Fatemi, was executed after the 1953 Iranian coup. But if he was spared, I could see him playing a role in the opposition to the Shah like other members of Jebhe Melli. As a journalist and experienced propagandist, is he able to gravitate...

Hello. I have been writing a story where Reagan is elected president in 1976, and Iran remains as a Western ally after becoming a constitutional monarchy (and this happen because either the Ayatollah Khomeini is killed or remains as a obscure figure preventing seize control of the Iranian...

Instead of being sacked and murdered, Amir Kabir remains in the good graces of the Shah and continues to pursue reform. Many have suggested this is Iran's best shot at modernization/industrialization, do you think that is true? What happens to the nobility that resisted him? With a weaker Shah...

Bush vs. The Axis of Evil 'It's Too Quiet' Excerpt from Christopher Hitchens in the debate ‘Was the War on Terror Unavoidable?’ “The dawn of the twenty-first century promised the dawn of a new era. Colonialism, Fascism and Stalinism had all had their intellectual and moral foundations...

The Iranian Green Movement or Green Wave of Iran arose in the aftermath of the June 12th, 2009 Iranian Presidential Election and would last until early 2010 with protesters demanding the removal of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from power and to replaced by Mir-Hossein Mousavi. However, in the end, the...

Reading about the history of Zoroastrianism is a fascinating and tragic one. Once the dominant religion of Iran, after the Arab Conquests, Zoroastrianism slowly declined as its followers were persecuted in their own homeland. However, Zoroastrianism survives as one of the oldest religions in the...

The Safavids are arguably the most significant dynasty in modern-Iran. Under their rule, they reasserted Iranian identity in the region that hasn't been seen since the Sassanids, Persian culture flourished, and most significantly of all, made Shia Islam the official religion of Iran. The...

In the 1920s, then-prime minister Reza Khan and his followers were planning to turn Iran into a republic. He was stopped by the opposition of the clergy and conservatives, who were ironically the ones that pushed an Islamic Republic over 50 years later. How different would Reza Shah's rule be as...

In real history, the Alchon Hunas (not to be confused with their possible relatives who invaded the Roman Empire c. 440) were a Central Asian tribe who invaded India between around 480 (after a previous Huna incursion had been defeated c. 460 by Skandagupta, the last important ruler of the Gupta...

Being the religion of one of the earliest civilizations in the world the ancient Mesopotamia faith lasted in some form for thousands of years before finally fading into irrelevance around the 4th century BCE. Your challenge is to have Mesopotamia polytheism survive and thrive past this point and...

I am a little bit tired of Scifi. So i'll start this new project (not new at all, being another setting for GURPS i'll created many years ago). In This timeline, Heraclius the Younger, instead of sailing from Carthage to Constantinople, decided to stay in African City, dooming the Empire in the...

It is said that history is written by the victors. Those that survive the battle, even though they lose, gets to keep their narrative alive. This story that I am about to tell you is somewhat similar but with much….. greater effects it has in the history of Bhārata. First Battle of Tarain...

Suppose that the Islamic Revolution failed; specifically, that interim PM Shahpour Bakhtiar did not invite Khomeini back to the country to create a "Vatican in Qoms" and so the theocrats fail their violent coup of the provisional government. How does Bakhtiar govern? What happens when...