In article .com,
"Mike Marotta" wrote:

stonej wrote:
I would like to see them concentrate
on more mundane things like this and
forget about their nuclear program.

That program being just one of the many similar reasons for the decline
of the rial, of course.

How much did it cost the government of Iran to hang on to that oil rich
Khuzestan region, which was part of "Persia" only by default -- and "de
fault" is with the Versailles Treaty (of course) which carved up the
old Ottoman Empire, but failed to acknowledge Khuzestan, Kurdistan, and
half a dozen other places that people still fight about. Balkanizaton
would have been a blessing.

Khuzestan was never part of the Ottoman Empire. It has been part of
Persia, or Iran, since prehistory, despite sporadic Arab invasions and a
large Arabic population. Kurdistan has a valid claim to be a country,
but not Khuzestan.

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Bob Underhill
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