1. Iraq (Arabs) & Iran (Persians)

4. Iraq

6. Kurdistan

7. In an area north of the city of Al-Basrah, Iraq, which borders Iran, a former wetland was drained and walled off. Littered with minefields and gun emplacements, it was a staging area for Iraqi military exercises under Sadam.

8. Iraq’s southern marshes, a Shi’a area, were drained by Sadam Hussein, a Sunni

14. Kuwait, 1991

15. Bedouin area, southern Iraq

17. Over-grazed landscape, Iraq

18. Returning city to mayor of Tuz

19. Flat bread party, Iraq

21. Desert Storm, Kuwait, 1991

23. Kuwait and Iraq border

27. Iranian women, Newsweek Feb. ‘06

28. Zagros Mountains, southern Iran

29. Persian King Darius’s tomb, Naqsh-e Rostam_Fars, Iran (near Shiraz)

30. Esfahan, Iran: Mosque entrance and interior

31. Persian Empire, 500 BC

32. 1953 US-backed overthrow of Muhammad Mossadegh
The 1953 Iranian coup d’etat deposed the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. In a plan called Operation Ajax, the United States' CIA organized and executed the overthrow of the nationalist government of Prime Minister Mossadegh, at the request of, and with support from the British, who resented Mossadegh’s nationalization of Iranian oil interests, shutting the Brits out. Reza Pahlavi, the Shah, and the monarch to whom Mossadegh pledged fealty, went on to rule Iran for 26 years until he was overthrown in Mossadegh was imprisoned and died a few years later under house arrest.
1951

33. The Shah of Iran, U. S. installed Emperor of Iran, 1941-1979
The Shah of Iran, U.S. installed Emperor of Iran, Deposed in the Iranian Revolution and succeeded by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who made Iran an Islamic State.

36. Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s current (2017) President, a moderate.
Ahmed Ahmadinejad, former Iranian president, & Holocaust denier

38. Tehran, 1964

39. Tehran, 2009

44. Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, defeated in rigged election, hiding