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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Exactly. We can't pretend the west had nothing to do with things, but it requires a real lack of depth in understanding the history of Iran to exhibit the eagerness with which some people want to throw themselves so fully on the blame grenade.
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How the Ottomans are let off the hook so easily is funny. A lot of the current administrative boundaries came from them and they sold land to Zionist settlers without compensating the tenants on the land who were currently living there (almost all land in the Ottoman Empire was considered "crown" land). They forcibly resettled people to manipulate demographics in the ME, they also did it in the Balkans which is one of the reasons that area also became messed up for so long.
When the Ottomans were defeated and Britain and France became the temporary caretakers, the place was already messed up. Modern day Turkey is by the way, considered the legal successor to the Ottoman Empire having inherited all their treaties and liabilities in the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. If people are going to blanket blame "The West", at least include Turkey in that.