Pouya Alimagham | پويا عالي مقام
@iPouya · California · joined 19 Jun 2009
Historian of Iran & the Middle East • PhD • Author, “Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings” (Cambridge Univ Press, https://t.co/U3fH6NWkvH)
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Thousands of miles away, pro-war voices in the Iranian diaspora in Los Angeles called for more bombs. In Iran, people were burying their children.
I wrote “The War They Asked For” for L.A. Tribune:
https://t.co/ZwYfE0LtFm https://t.co/ml5vAcb2qv
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#humanizeIran #Iran #IranWar https://t.co/F6mAYH0u3n
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Iran is one of the most demonized countries on Earth. It’s always easier to justify bombing a country when it’s demonized to such a degree. As such, humanizing Iran should be a crucial way to express opposition to the US-Israel war on Iran. #HumanizeIran #Iran #IranWar https://t.
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@iPouya I have been to over 80 countries around the world. There are some that I found more impressive in terms of landscapes, architecture, or history than Iran. But when it comes to the hospitality, openness, and sincerity of the people, no other country has impressed me more
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@iPouya Isntreal: blow you to pieces with tank shells while starving your family to death
Iran: cookies on the bus
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@iPouya Iran, like all Muslim nations, is about hospitality because a guest for Muslims is a visitor sent by Allah, and we must respect and assist them to the best of our ability as that is serving Allah. ♥️
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Humanize Iran & Iranians. Someone posted on IG that when she, as an American, visited Iran, she was welcomed with open arms and generosity. Here is a photo of a man offering her cookies while on they were traveling on a bus. If you know Iranians, you know 💯 this is super common.
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Remember this history when you think the US should do this or that in the MidEast.
Such history shows that the US govt is self-interested, & its self-interest often contrasts w/the safety, security, stability, & natural political evolution of the peoples of the Middle East. END
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Had the US enlivened its commitment to democracy by embracing #Mossadeq—or at least not toppling him—the region/world would look very different.
That isnt to say that nothing else bad wouldn’t have happened in the alternate reality but it’s hard to imagine a worse trajectory. 17
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The 2nd Iraq War led to the emergence of Al-Qaeda cells all over and the eventual rise of ISIS.
All this began with the US-British overthrow of #Iran’s democratic govt. 16
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The attacks of 9/11 led to a 20-year war in #Afghanistan that accomplished little, & a 2nd US-led war on #Iraq—Iraq’s 3rd in 23 years.
Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 but the Bush admin used 9/11 as an excuse to launch a wholly *war of choice* on Iraq, unraveling the region. 15
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That catastrophic death toll became one of the catalysts for bin Laden targeting the US on 9/11.
The other catalysts were US support for Israel in its colonization of #Palestine, US support for secular dictators in the region, and US troops & bases in #SaudiArabia. 14
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In 1996, an interviewer asked then Secretary of State Madeline Albright if the death toll was worth it to punish Saddam, to which she replied: “We think the price is worth it.” 13 https://t.co/WxjWqf10lx
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The destruction of the civilian infrastructure coupled with a 12-year sanctions period to impoverish the civilian population. More importantly, the UN estimates that 1.5 million Iraqis died from the sanctions. Half a million of the 1.5 were children. 12 https://t.co/F2S3N7Sg2W
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Most US casualties were from friendly fire. The #Iraq death toll, however, was staggering. Much critical civilian infrastructure was destroyed.
It’s estimated that the US dropped more bombs on Iraq in its short but devastating aerial campaign than in the entire #Vietnam War. 11
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Despite Amb. Glaspie’s words, the US used the occasion of the USSR’s demise & the Iraqi occupation to station troops in the Persian Gulf.
They’ve been there ever since.
6 months later, the US-led coalition launched Desert Storm—what was more a mass slaughter than a war. 10
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On Aug 2, 1990, Saddam invaded & annexed Kuwait to both erase the war debt & avoid demobilizing his soldiers. He used pretexts like “returning the 19th province (Kuwait) to #Iraq” and falsely alleged that Kuwait was slant drilling into the Iraq side of shared oil field—Rumaila. 9
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As the USSR was unraveling, Saddam first checked with his wartime ally, the US, to see its stance before taking action. The US ambassador to Baghdad, April Glaspie, was vague to the point that Saddam believed he had a green light to invade. 8 https://t.co/KRcJTX0FAR
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With billions in war debt to #Kuwait & #SaudiArabia, he looked to the smaller of the 2.
Saddam refused to pay its war debt to Kuwait, & Kuwait responded by exceeding its OPEC quota, flooding the market w/oil & driving down prices. Iraq accused Kuwait of waging an economic war. 7
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The US & Co heavily backed Iraq—even as it used chemical weapons against Iranians.
Some estimates put just the Iranian death toll at 1 million, more than twice the total US death toll in WW2.
Both #Iran & #Iraq suffered high death tolls and economic ruin. 5 https://t.co/rCEAHq
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By the end of the war, Iraq had 1.6 million men under arms, basically all adult males from age 18-45.
With the Iraqi economy reeling from the war, Saddam refused to demobilize his soldiers and send them home to a jobless future that could result in uprisings against him. 6
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Worried that the revolution would spill over into #Iraq, Saddam seized the opportunity of Iran’s military disarray bc of purges and international isolation due to the seizure of the US embassy to order the invasion of Iran.
The war was ruinous for both sides. 4 https://t.co/GUF8
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The Iranian Revolution was the outcome of the coup, the proverbial “throwing out the baby with the bath water.”
Months into the post-revolution period, radicals seized the US embassy out of fear the US would again topple Iran’s govt.
The embassy was the HQ for the 1953 coup. 3
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In ‘63, a peaceful uprising erupted against the coup govt, which put down the uprising violently, changing a generation. Many realized that nonviolent struggle or reform were futile. Guerrilla groups emerged. Gradual change gave way to people seeking radical revolution. 2
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🧵 On this day, the US & UK overthrew #Iran’s democratic govt. In its place, they installed an autocrat, & equipped it w/a vicious secret police to ensure that the coup govt stayed in power.
The coup set in motion a series of events that affected Iran, the region, & the world. 1
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On the 39th anniversary of the liberation of #Khorramshahr from Saddam’s clutches, I bid all Iranians around the world a heartfelt congratulations.
هرگز فراموششان نكنيد https://t.co/fPyCMNCtdc
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