Since the Islamic Republic of Iran was founded in 1979, there has been a war between Iran, Israel and the US. The war has never been officially declared, and there has been no real reconciliation.
Part 2: https://youtu.be/ybykVSYQlYY
Part One of this two-part documentary focuses on the origins of the conflict between Iran and Israel. It began when the Israelis invaded Lebanon to confront a new Lebanese Shiite force backed by Iran: Hezbollah.
Throughout the Middle East, targeted assassinations, bombings, and non-military attacks with no clear attribution are on the rise. Could the āsecret warā between Iran and Israel escalate into a major regional or even global confrontation? The two countries are dominant powers in todayās Middle East. Yet Iran and Israel have failed to resolve their historical disputes, and there has never been significant dialogue between them. And what role does the United States play in the conflict?
Based on painstaking archival research and featuring high-profile players in Israel, Iran, Lebanon and the US, the film looks back on the more than forty years since Iranās Islamic Revolution. It explores key moments and provides ways of understanding the new Middle East.
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I honestly congratulate Iran for its bravery in teaching lesson to US /Britian & their Jewish Alley ie. Israel.
The Sikhs should learn militarily loads loads from Iran & Afghanistan.
This documentary is BS. CIA brought the filthy khomeini into Iran. The US wanted Irans oil and the Shah wanted to keep the riches inside the country. He had big plans, may his soul rest in peace. Thats why the US introduced islam in the worst human form to progressively take over. Scum.
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Here's story.
This is a story that dates way back to the early 1900s. Now, during this time the Industrial Revolution In the US and Europe was picking up and oil was becoming more and more important. But the problem with the US was that oil had not been discovered in UAE, Saudi, and Iraq. So back then, Iran was one of the biggest suppliers of oil.
The catch here was that although Iran had humongous oilfields, the government of Iran actually made very less money from their own oil.
The question is why? that is because the Brits very clearly established a joint venture with Iran, called the Anglo Iranian Company. And just like the East India Company exploited the indigo farmers in India, this company extracted Oil from Iran and made a deal such that the Brits got 84% of the profits and the Iranian people got only 16% of the profits.
This is such a sweet deal for the brits that, in spite of not having their own oil field, by using someone else's oilfield on someone else's land, these people took away more than 80% of the profits, so it was practically a black gold mine for them.
But this is when Iran under the rise of a new Prime Minister by the name of Mohammad Mossadegh and on the 15th of March 1951 he simply nationalized the entire oil industry of Iran and asked the brits to get out of Iran.
So, suddenly Iran was about to emerge as a powerful nation because it had complete control over one of the largest oil reserves in the world. But this guy who was about to bring massive fortunes to Iran and was about to change the fate of Iran on the world stage gets overthrown by a coup and is put on house arrest.
The question is why? as it turns out, the Brits in CR an anti-Muslim propaganda by portraying him as a threat to the Shah of Iran, and once enough people believed it, they arranged a Coup, took him off the power, and gave them the power to an obedient puppet called Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
He was Pretty much of Iran, so the transfer of power was no big deal at all And guess what? within some time everybody forgot about nationalization and in the next 25 years the British and American companies set up their plans in Iran. These companies include Exxon, Gulf Oil, Mobil, and Standard Oil of California.
These companies started extracting oil by giving a 15% share of profits to Iran. So the Brits and the US again made billions of dollars and started starting from the oil reserves of Iran.
In fact, they even went one step further and sold $13 billion worth of weapons to Iran. This exploitation went on for the next 20 years until a religious revolution sparked up in Iran which overthrew the government. This is when a leader named Ayatollah Khomeini rose to power and again he kicked US and Brits out and nationalized the entire oil of Iran.
We are back to square one, right? the US has lost control over both the Iranian oil reserves and the weapons trade.
Now the question is what can the U.S. do? Well,
In a very important year, 1982 was the year in which Chair Ronald Reagan dropped your ACT from the list of states supporting terrorists. By this time, that is by 1979 the world is already found oil in UAE, Saudi, and Iraq.
And out of these countries, Iraq was in strong opposition to Iran and saw the emergence of a leader named Saddam Hussein.
And this guy started the war by shaking Iran, and Iraq war that went on for the next nine years.
So guess what this time instead of overthrowing the government in Iran, the United States sold weapons and funded Iraq to defeat Iran.
So from 1983 onward, Ronald Reagan, the tenth president of the United States offered aid worth billions of dollars to Iraq. This included funding, weapons, and even military intelligence to make sure that the Iraqi army is able to destroy the attacks of Iranian soldiers. So you see what happened over here? Both sides of the war were sold US weapons and now people were dying on both sides, the property was being damaged in both sides. The economy was collapsing on both sides, but the United States made money regardless. Then finally, after eight years of war, half a billion lives are lost. Another million people were injured and the economic cost of war exceeded $1 trillion, shattering the economies of both Iran and Iraq. Now mind you all this, while Saddam Hussein was a ruthless dictator who massacred hundreds of thousands of people, there were even estimates that say that he killed close to 250 thousand people in the process of genocide and even used chemical weapons and torturous poison gases to kill the Iranian army.
But all throughout this time, the US, in spite of knowing all this, kept on giving assistance to Iraq and this led to one of the bloodiest wars in human history, and eventually, the economic damage prevented both Iran and Iraq from becoming an oil superpower.
The Iran Iraq war destroyed the economies of Both the countries and Saddam Hussein had taken a huge loan of as much as $37 billion from Saudi Arabia, UAE and others.
After the war, he was in no position to pay back the loans, and coincidentally, during that time even OPEC lowered the price of oil because of which Iran's economy was crumbling and this is where something crazy happened, out of nowhere, Saddam Hussein decided to invade Kuwait, which is the 6th largest oil reserve in the world. But while most people thought that he was giving out false threats, this is what happened on the 2nd of August 1990. Now, as soon as this happened, the United States turned against the same Saddam Hussein whom they once supported.
I don't want to say much…. believe it or not… this is U$@'s plans.
Deutsche Welle….. You've taken the side already. I didn't say that Iranians didn't do wrong I am trying to say you guys are ignoring the big role played by US-led-west (specifically US and British) especially oil companies.
Is this a re-upload?
god isnt happy. he talks through us with the weather. HONEST!!!
IRAN PLAY WOOD ISRAEL IRAQ AFGHANISTAN SYRIA LEBANON YEMEN SAUDI AMERICA EUROPEAN….BUT NOW A AM CHENGES YOU POLITICS…..IN GAME RUSSIA CHINA AND NORTH KOREA CUBA REMEMBER DON'T HELP ECONOMY AND ARMY TURKEY….PLEASE SP.AKT .š
accept that god is in our lives ( everyone ) and he will be in our hearts forever
you see? they deserve what they got today. all people on the Earth went for revolution sometimes, theirs was a failure
Iran supports terrorism around the globe
How well things worked out for Iran. People today still getting slaughtered by the government in the streets
Religion is the debilitating of mental diseases.
Rid the world of religion, and the world may know peace.
Ah DW always from the Germans we get deception. Lies and propaganda.
this is self preservation and NOT terror
This show is inaccurate. The history starts in the 1950's. God, I hate when an org such as DW has uneducated folks running the company! Get it right. 1979 was just a reaction to the 1950's and the tactics over 20 years of the Shah!!!
Human civilization is going backward. After all that many religious crusades, empires, and other wars, the two ancient people, Israel and Iran haven't learned a thing yet. Still, they're arch enemies to anahilate one another. I wonder, why they couldn't understand how a lot easier it's to hurt each other. I don't understand the meaning of long civilized people. They should know better than anyone. People who have been through so many suffering should figure out violence is harmful to anyone. Wining is relatively temporary. The cycle will continue. I am disappointed about both people. I start to question intelligent. I am certain that there are intelligent people in both sides. When are they going to wake up? Mutual distraction won't help for anyone. I hope they will rethink and realise about zealot religiously motivated madness. I hate to loose the people I admire who have had immense potential to do good. I beg you to learn from humanity teacher ancient Greek. Trust me. Nobody wins by killing and destroying civilization. Humanity will be the bigger looser. This days I see a lot of madness in the world. Mutual understanding would be better than trying to control one another in the 21st century. Mother Earth is enough for all of us. We are in self destruction paths. I hope Humanity uses their marvelous brain than the premitive and egotistical thinking, muscle show off mentality.
israel is a terror state and much worse than Iran. israel is not a country.
Anything related with Islam or mohammed is not good for humanity. This is the history of last 1400 years. But our false liberal and secular peoples don't want to understand it.Islam is curse to humanity. Problems is not lies with people but teachings of mohammed and his Islam.
So basically, if the Palestinians had their own country there would be peace in the entire Middle East? After watching two episodes of this documentary seems like this is the root of the problem.
Shah was bent on making Iran a great power so people had the revolution? š
Him and his family were in charge of Iran for 56 years .
On the day shah left literacy rate in Iran was 37%, this means that 63% of people couldnāt write their name .
80% of Iranians didnāt have water and power.
This is after 56 years of pahlavi rule .
Millions of barrels of oil was exported out of Iran and sold and Iran only received 14% of ITāS oil money .
Iranians were living in utter poverty.
So what happened?
One morning he woke up and decided to turn Iran into a superpower and people said ā ohhhh, no no , we are used to misery and poverty ā and overthrow him?
USA is just a puppet they shouldn t even be here in this š everyone with 2 brain cells knows who owns USA..
so much history is being rewritten here…. sad.
There is no war between Iran and US.
The war is between Iran and Israel and US is Israelās baseball bat.
In 1948 Israel declared war on Islam .
The war is over Israelās flag which has two blue lines and a Star of David in the middle.
This flag is a Jewish holy verse which says ā the land between river Euphrates and Neil is Jewish land .ā
The two blue lines on the flag represent the two rivers .
That area is like Americaās first 13 colonies.
They are thinking ā from sea to shining sea.ā
In 1948 Israel failed in one huge way , they thought they were the cowboys and middle easterners were the naked Indians on horse.
It failed to realize that middle easterners had 10,000 years of war experience under their belt .
The American are responsible for all conflicts in the world
It would seem to be that autocracies with crazy ideas of conquest have been largely responsible for most of the wars. There are hopes that democratic governments would act more responsibly because the people who have to fight and perhaps die in any future war are in control. Decisions are openly reached and voted on by elected officials giving the people a say in their own future.