this country’s name means land of the
Aryans welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be learning about 20th
century Iran we particularly welcome you
and the Empress as good friends and old
friends Iran aggressively pursues these
weapons and exports terror while an
unelected few repressed the Iranian
people’s hope for freedom known
officially as the Islamic Republic of
Iran and culturally as Persia this
country is recognized for its influence
in the Middle East Iran is also
politically powerful due to its location
and its large reserves of petroleum and
natural gas while civilization in Iran
dates back to 2800 BC the Persian Empire
peaked in the sixth century BC under
Cyrus the Great two centuries later the
Greeks led by Alexander the Great
defeated the Persians which led to the
rise of Western thought over the East
Muslims converted Persians to Islam in
the 7th century AD but 800 years later
the Safavid dynasty embraced the Shiism
branch of islam causing a lasting rift
with the majority of Sunnis different
forces struggled for power over the next
centuries by the early 1900’s Iran’s
first national Parliament was created in
1925 the Khazar dynasty fell and iran’s
prime minister and ex general of the
persian cossack brigade Reza Khan became
shot or King however during World War
two neighboring USSR and influential
Britain began suspecting that Iran was
aligning itself with Germany in 1941
they coerced the Shah into giving the
throne to his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
a decade later dr. Mohammad Mossadegh
was elected prime minister he angered
Britain by nationalizing Iran’s
petroleum industry and oil reserves
which had been controlled by a British
owned company this boldness contributed
to him becoming Time magazine’s Person
of the Year for 1951 British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill then
boycotted Iranian oil and partnered with
American President Dwight Eisenhower to
launch Operation Ajax the us
successfully coordinated their first
coup d’etat of a democratically elected
civilian government
when Mossadegh was arrested on August 19
1950 three years later the United States
admitted their mistake in deposing the
popular leader though Iranians never
forgave their intervention the path was
clear for the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
to take unrestrained and complete
control through violent and autocratic
rule he allowed his intelligence agency
Sava to terrorize civilians and
opponents alike after emerging as a
vocal opponent of the Shahs White
Revolution religious and political
figure Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was
swiftly arrested and later exiled if you
are unhappy that your country makes
progress if you are unhappy that your
country is saying goodbye to a
feudalistic system if you are unhappy
that half of the population of your
country the women are emancipated well
this I cannot tell by early 1978
protests and strikes erupted across the
nation and marked the start of the
Iranian or Islamic Revolution following
the shah’s departure the next year
Khomeini returned to the country and the
Pallavi dynasty fell once a national
referendum made Iran an Islamic Republic
on April 1st 1979 a theocratic
Constitution was adopted and Khomeini
became supreme leader soon resentment
against the US for assisting the Shah
and its lack of support of the Iranian
Revolution reached a simmering point
when on November 4 1979 a group of
Iranian students took multiple hostages
at the US Embassy in Tehran if the
American hostages are harmed a severe
price will be paid
fifty-two Americans were held captive
for 444 days until the Iran hostage
crisis was resolved with the 1981
Algiers Accord
meanwhile Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein
sent his army to invade Iran on
September 22nd 1980 which began the
eight-year iran-iraq war both sides saw
over 500,000 casualties but this armed
conflict was most notable for Saddam’s
use of chemical weapons against Iran
among other tactics the fact that
Western powers supplied Iraq with those
weapons further angered Iran efforts
were made to improve Iran’s economy
following the 1988 ceasefire for example
President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
implemented a pro-business policy in
1997 the moderate reformist Mohammad
Khatami
promoted more democratic ideals and
attempted to develop a friendlier tone
with the West as Iran’s president but by
2005 conservative populist Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad was voted into power and he
sharply rebuked any date on with the
West despite the fact Iran had never
invaded or attacked any nation akhmad
any jobs lack of respect for human
rights and his pursuit of nuclear energy
caused criticism and discontent
particularly with US ally and nuclear
power Israel months of protests followed
his 2009 re-election but aquaeden
Assad’s regime
remained firmly in charge Iran has
endured centuries of unstable politics
and this is carried over into
international conflicts and protests I
will do everything in my power to
prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear
weapon the next 100 years will
undoubtedly be as full of change as the
last
Aryans welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be learning about 20th
century Iran we particularly welcome you
and the Empress as good friends and old
friends Iran aggressively pursues these
weapons and exports terror while an
unelected few repressed the Iranian
people’s hope for freedom known
officially as the Islamic Republic of
Iran and culturally as Persia this
country is recognized for its influence
in the Middle East Iran is also
politically powerful due to its location
and its large reserves of petroleum and
natural gas while civilization in Iran
dates back to 2800 BC the Persian Empire
peaked in the sixth century BC under
Cyrus the Great two centuries later the
Greeks led by Alexander the Great
defeated the Persians which led to the
rise of Western thought over the East
Muslims converted Persians to Islam in
the 7th century AD but 800 years later
the Safavid dynasty embraced the Shiism
branch of islam causing a lasting rift
with the majority of Sunnis different
forces struggled for power over the next
centuries by the early 1900’s Iran’s
first national Parliament was created in
1925 the Khazar dynasty fell and iran’s
prime minister and ex general of the
persian cossack brigade Reza Khan became
shot or King however during World War
two neighboring USSR and influential
Britain began suspecting that Iran was
aligning itself with Germany in 1941
they coerced the Shah into giving the
throne to his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
a decade later dr. Mohammad Mossadegh
was elected prime minister he angered
Britain by nationalizing Iran’s
petroleum industry and oil reserves
which had been controlled by a British
owned company this boldness contributed
to him becoming Time magazine’s Person
of the Year for 1951 British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill then
boycotted Iranian oil and partnered with
American President Dwight Eisenhower to
launch Operation Ajax the us
successfully coordinated their first
coup d’etat of a democratically elected
civilian government
when Mossadegh was arrested on August 19
1950 three years later the United States
admitted their mistake in deposing the
popular leader though Iranians never
forgave their intervention the path was
clear for the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
to take unrestrained and complete
control through violent and autocratic
rule he allowed his intelligence agency
Sava to terrorize civilians and
opponents alike after emerging as a
vocal opponent of the Shahs White
Revolution religious and political
figure Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was
swiftly arrested and later exiled if you
are unhappy that your country makes
progress if you are unhappy that your
country is saying goodbye to a
feudalistic system if you are unhappy
that half of the population of your
country the women are emancipated well
this I cannot tell by early 1978
protests and strikes erupted across the
nation and marked the start of the
Iranian or Islamic Revolution following
the shah’s departure the next year
Khomeini returned to the country and the
Pallavi dynasty fell once a national
referendum made Iran an Islamic Republic
on April 1st 1979 a theocratic
Constitution was adopted and Khomeini
became supreme leader soon resentment
against the US for assisting the Shah
and its lack of support of the Iranian
Revolution reached a simmering point
when on November 4 1979 a group of
Iranian students took multiple hostages
at the US Embassy in Tehran if the
American hostages are harmed a severe
price will be paid
fifty-two Americans were held captive
for 444 days until the Iran hostage
crisis was resolved with the 1981
Algiers Accord
meanwhile Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein
sent his army to invade Iran on
September 22nd 1980 which began the
eight-year iran-iraq war both sides saw
over 500,000 casualties but this armed
conflict was most notable for Saddam’s
use of chemical weapons against Iran
among other tactics the fact that
Western powers supplied Iraq with those
weapons further angered Iran efforts
were made to improve Iran’s economy
following the 1988 ceasefire for example
President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
implemented a pro-business policy in
1997 the moderate reformist Mohammad
Khatami
promoted more democratic ideals and
attempted to develop a friendlier tone
with the West as Iran’s president but by
2005 conservative populist Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad was voted into power and he
sharply rebuked any date on with the
West despite the fact Iran had never
invaded or attacked any nation akhmad
any jobs lack of respect for human
rights and his pursuit of nuclear energy
caused criticism and discontent
particularly with US ally and nuclear
power Israel months of protests followed
his 2009 re-election but aquaeden
Assad’s regime
remained firmly in charge Iran has
endured centuries of unstable politics
and this is carried over into
international conflicts and protests I
will do everything in my power to
prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear
weapon the next 100 years will
undoubtedly be as full of change as the
last
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