AHC: Iraq with >0.9 HDI

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Possible. The country has a massive Oil reserves, a fairly Secular population, excellent rivers and good strategic routes. A West friendly regime in Iraq could give this.
 
Possible. The country has a massive Oil reserves, a fairly Secular population, excellent rivers and good strategic routes. A West friendly regime in Iraq could give this.
Meanwhile Turkey and Syria are damming said river's so they will have to set up plans on keeping the river's going and not have the water infrastructure get bombed or ruined by the US Air force, British, Soviet Union, Israeli Air force, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, NATO, Iranian Military, Rebel's/insurgent's and others depending on what leader(s) is running the country and which side Iraq pick's on in the cold war since this is a 1900 POD we can assume that WW1 must end with Central power's defeat to allow Iraq to exist and in WW2 not much can really change with the Anglo–Iraqi War.

Not sure on what else is to come after the 50s...
 
Possible. The country has a massive Oil reserves, a fairly Secular population, excellent rivers and good strategic routes. A West friendly regime in Iraq could give this.
Yeah, but history made them "serbo-croat seculars", which means lack of care for religion observance in government doesnt mean that religion isnt fundamental to their communal and ethnic identity. You would need to avoid Saddam and the violent fall of his regime. Maybe have the shia dominate the Baathist party so the majority isnt alienated from the government on an ethnic basis, and make shure they transition towards a dominant party model as peaceful as posible.
But keep in mind that the oil-population ratio isnt as absurd as in the persian gulf. They have an actual population, so in order to be really properous they will need a productive and diverse economy.
 
Meanwhile Turkey and Syria are damming said river's so they will have to set up plans on keeping the river's going and not have the water infrastructure get bombed or ruined by the US Air force, British, Soviet Union, Israeli Air force, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, NATO, Iranian Military, Rebel's/insurgent's and others depending on what leader(s) is running the country and which side Iraq pick's on in the cold war since this is a 1900 POD we can assume that with we can assume that WW1 must end with Central power's defeat to allow Iraq to exist and in WW2 not much can really change with the Anglo–Iraqi War.
Seriously, there should be international threaties about damming rivers that ran througt multiple countries, the shit that Ethiopia and Turkey do can ruin millions of lives, Irak and Egypt can barely sustain human life without their major rivers.
 
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