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kontextmaschine said: you’re just mad cause our weird holdover residue-of-the-World-Wars issue is about like, *Persia* and yours is just about the Gallipoli Peninsula

is that where the Americans got it? I thought you only got weird about Iran after the revolution.

although Australia has an unfortunate Gallipoli fixation I don’t think it influences foreign policy so much as domestic policy, we’re unlikely to try invading that again.

>@businesstiramisu said: wait @kontextmaschine what’s the US’s WWI-era connection to Persia? I don’t know of anything

After the WWI collapse of the Ottoman Empire the British and French basically split their sphere of interest; Persia, which was a major petroleum producer on the Brit-dominated coast of the Indian Ocean, was firmly in the British sphere

In the Suez Crisis the US basically pulled the UK and France’s “we own all your debt ok” chain and cut off their colonial dreams and inherited their vassal states in the region and Persia (do you know “Iran” was the same word as “Aryan” when that was in style?) was our regional client jewel, the Revolution really was a bop on the nose to our dreamed-of future