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→History: Per a Nov 1942 French report, the Iranian population was not pro Axis
In October, 1941, the Allies: British, Russians and other Allied forces invaded Iran to break up the Iran-Nazi alliance. Pro-Nazi generals and ministers were arrested and the shah’s Western-leaning son was installed.
In October, 1941, the Allies: British, Russians and other Allied forces invaded Iran to break up the Iran-Nazi alliance. Pro-Nazi generals and ministers were arrested and the shah’s Western-leaning son was installed.
Per a Nov 1942 French report, the Iranian population was not pro Axis.<ref>Le Petit Journal, Nov 8, 1942 [https://books.google.com/books?id=gLIvAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA12]
Translated: <small><i>
<u>South of the Caspian</i>
In reality, the British troops in Persia (or Iran) are not there so much to watch the population as to defend the important oil wells found there. Persia also serves as a communication route between the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea: it is through there that enormous quantities of war matériel flow to Russia. The Muslims of Persia are quite sympathetic to our cause: they are, moreover, the most educated of all Islam. Recent statistics indicate that they have nearly two thousand schools educating nearly one million young Persians. That is why Axis propaganda has less hold on them.
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<u>PALESTINE</u>: There is a half-million Jews there ready to die for their cause as well. They have begged London to allow them to form an army and to supply them with weapons. The British have responded to these requests only evasively and politely. This has been the case since the date of the Balfour Declaration, whose twenty-fifth anniversary was celebrated on November 2: London fears displeasing the Arabs by arming the Israelites.</i></small></ref>
Reza Shah and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi legacies evoke consternation and controversy. Both were pro-Western modernizers, promoted science, Western education, women and minority rights, economic development, a judiciary more on a Western model as opposed to shariah and clerical rule. But the [[Carter administration]] viewed the [[Ayatollah Khomeini]] as a paragon of [[human rights]], an expression of the will of the Iranian people for [[self-determination]], and Iran was [[Desecularization#Islamic_desecularization|desecularized]] in 1979. One of the Ayatollah's first acts was to issue a [[fatwa]] promising paradise for children who joined the Iranian military during the Iran-Iraq war. By 1982, with Shi'a clergy in command, the government asked children, age 9 years old and up, to clear minefields so the regular Army could advance against the Iraqi Army. <ref>[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/iran-iraq.htm Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), ''Iraqi Retreats, 1982-84''], Globalsecruity.org, retrieved 20 March 2007.</ref><ref>[http://www.matthiaskuentzel.de/contents/ahmadinejads-demons ''Ahmadinejad's Demons: A Child of the Revolution Takes Over''], Matthias Küntzel, The New Republic, 24 April 2006 .</ref> About 100,000 died as ''Basij'' child soldiers building the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Reza Shah and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi legacies evoke consternation and controversy. Both were pro-Western modernizers, promoted science, Western education, women and minority rights, economic development, a judiciary more on a Western model as opposed to shariah and clerical rule. But the [[Carter administration]] viewed the [[Ayatollah Khomeini]] as a paragon of [[human rights]], an expression of the will of the Iranian people for [[self-determination]], and Iran was [[Desecularization#Islamic_desecularization|desecularized]] in 1979. One of the Ayatollah's first acts was to issue a [[fatwa]] promising paradise for children who joined the Iranian military during the Iran-Iraq war. By 1982, with Shi'a clergy in command, the government asked children, age 9 years old and up, to clear minefields so the regular Army could advance against the Iraqi Army. <ref>[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/iran-iraq.htm Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), ''Iraqi Retreats, 1982-84''], Globalsecruity.org, retrieved 20 March 2007.</ref><ref>[http://www.matthiaskuentzel.de/contents/ahmadinejads-demons ''Ahmadinejad's Demons: A Child of the Revolution Takes Over''], Matthias Küntzel, The New Republic, 24 April 2006 .</ref> About 100,000 died as ''Basij'' child soldiers building the Islamic Republic of Iran.