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Is 1979 the year everything went wrong for the middle east? 2017-08-09 11:03:00 Post No. 3220475
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Is 1979 the year everything went wrong for the middle east?
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>Iranian revolution and rise of the ayatollah guardianship
>the mecca mosque attack and virulent critique on the saudi regime for being fundamentally anti-islamic
>Soviet afghanistan war and beginnings the mujaheed movement and the global jihad doctrine
>saddam purges his parliament live on tv and fully establishes himself as iraq's dictator
>1979 OPEC energy crisis
Was any of this inevitable? Or did it betray something more about the general malaise felt amongst MENA nations ever since the collapse of the ottoman? I'm not insinuating that things were "going well" in the middle east prior to 1979, but it seems to me like this was a particularly significant year to which many current religious and geopolitical problems can be traced back. Am I missing something or is there really nothing to it?
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>>3220475
The weakness of the USA under Carter was the cause of global catastrophe, yes. Just like the weakness of the USA under Obama was the cause of global catastrophe.
Reagan fixed it in his time, but in his time Demorats were not completely insane yet.
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>>3220475
Everything went wrong after 1918 desu.
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For Iran everything went wrong in 1953 not 1979
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>>3220484
Sure nothing will top the collapse of the ottoman, the middle east suddenly had to put in practice western concepts such as nationalism, socialism or even fascism a bit later on. Most of these notions were things they only marginally dabbled with when trying to reform/industrialise their empire prior to 1918. And most of these "westernised" hotspots were concentrated around what would become turkey and syria. And it's pretty clear the sykes-picot borders encouraged sectarian violence by institutionalizing ascendencies where they were previously none. But ASIDE from 1918, was 1979 the next most significant year in middle eastern history? I won't talk about 2011 because it's too recent and imo the hype for 2011 is nothing but western wishful thinking and will prove to have been largely irrelevant.
>>3220495
Was mossadegh really that important despite his popularity? It's not like the shah was not already technically in charge at that point. Also wasn't he basically courting the USSR for support and would have likely ended up as yet another cold war stooge, if only from the other side had the US-UK not staged the coup (yes, I know about anglo-persian oil so I won't try to dispute it was convenient to say the least but it's not like the USSR was not looking at the oil either).
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>>3220475
1987 was pretty bad to.
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I blame the fall of the soviet union, far too many weapons proliferated te third world and middle east because of abandoned armories.
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