2020 THE FALL OF ISLAMIC STATES & THE RRISE OF A NEW POLITICAL ORDER (IRAN, ISRAEL, ARMENIA UNION) By: Sohrab Chamanara Ketab Corp. 2020 THE FALL OF ISLAMIC STATES & THE RRISE OF A NEW POLITICAL ORDER (IRAN ISRAEL ARMENIA UNION) By: Sohrab Chamanara I S B N: 978-1-59584- 500-9 © Copyright Sohrab Chamanara. 2015 Subject: ?????? Ketab Corp. 1419 Westwood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90024 U.S.A. Tel: (310) 477-7477 Fax: (310) 444-7176 www.Ketab.com [email protected] All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or retransmitted in any manner whatsoever except in the form of review, without permission of the author or the publisher. Manufactured in the United States of America You, you may say I am a dreamer But I am not the only one I hope someday you’ll join us And the world will be as one. «John Lennon» Contents INTRODUCTION ................................................................... I 2020'S SEEDS OF CHANGE .............................................. IV A New Grand Alliance--Preface ............................................. VI Chapter One A Peaceful History ...................................................................... 1 Ancient Invasions, Modern Connection .................................... 5 Roman and Persian Empires ...................................................... 6 Cyrus and the Persian Jews ......................................................... 9 Mohammed and the Quran ...................................................... 11 Shiite vs. Sunni Split ................................................................. 13 Mongol Rule (1256-1318) ........................................................ 14 Next Come the Turks ............................................................... 15 Safavid and Qajar Dynasties (1502-1925) ................................ 17 Persian-Armenian Relations ..................................................... 19 Chapter Two Three Historic Genocides ........................................................ 21 Armenia .................................................................................... 21 Reforms and Resentment Toward Armenians ......................... 23 World War I Battles ................................................................. 27 Persecution of Armenians ......................................................... 29 The Great Famine .................................................................... 35 Book on Iranian Genocide ....................................................... 38 What If? .................................................................................... 39 The Nazi Genocide or .............................................................. 40 The Jewish Holocaust ............................................................... 40 Kristallnacht (1938) .................................................................. 43 Concentration and LaBor Camps (1933-1945) ........................ 44 Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution ........................... 46 Extermination Camps ............................................................... 47 New Gas ChamBers .................................................................. 48 Climax ....................................................................................... 50 Escapes & Reports of Killings .................................................. 51 Death Marches (1944-1945) .................................................... 52 Postscript .................................................................................. 54 Chapter Three Creation of Israel and Pakistan ................................................. 57 Pahlavi Dynasty (1925-1979) ................................................... 60 Islamic RepuBlic (1979-Present) .............................................. 61 From the 20th to the 21st Century ............................................. 61 Chapter Four Thirty-six years after the Islamic Revolution ........................... 73 Iran’s Women’s Movement ...................................................... 75 Chapter Five Islamic State (IS) ...................................................................... 83 Time Travel into the Future ..................................................... 89 A Change of Regime ................................................................ 92 Chapter Six A prospective look to the future ............................................. 103 The road to 2020 .................................................................... 111 Appendix ................................................................................. 119 INTRODUCTION This book chronicles a 2500-year history of the Middle East. It all began in the B.C. era with a period of glorious empire, followed by Arab invasions and Ottoman domination and ending with three genocides of the past century and the totally repressive Iranian Revolution of 1979. That last event ushered in the regime of the corrupt and tyrannical Ayatollahs, led by Ayatollah Khomeini and his successor, Ayatollah Khamenie. My intent in providing this lengthy, inclusive history, beginning with benevolent rulers like Cyrus, literary masterworks such as the “Shamanah” and peaceful relations among neighbors, has been to demonstrate the dominant civilizing influence of Persia (now Iran) in the region. If we can see the history of that nation, before the invasions by Arab invaders and the self-interested rule of colonial powers in the 1800s, we can have our minds open to the possibility that an era of conciliation is possible. The only thing preventing such a return to those better, once-before, times are the shackles imposed by our limited historical consciousness. That worldview, prior to 1979, saw Iran as a Muslim nation, rich in oil and exploited by American and other international petroleum companies for their domestic use. Since 1979, we have seen a nation that has retreated to the Middle Ages with rule by religious clerics also intent on exploiting and abusing the Iranian people for their personal enrichment and misguided religious beliefs. I wish to offer an alternative vision of the land of my ancestors. The I year 2020 is not seen as a strict calendar date. It is, instead, a metaphor for a time in the not-too-distant future in which the people of three, once-unified, nations--Iran, Armenia and Israel-- can unite once again in an alliance of similar political and cultural values along with economic interests, a territory that was once the same size as the Persian Empire. The three nations will keep their current boundaries but acknowledge that they each emerged from the same source and have the same peaceful aspirations for their people and for advancing their common development. We are living in dangerous, even revolutionary, times. A new century is awakening and wishes to throw off the shackles of the past--old rulers, old ways and outmoded national structures. The last century brought at least three genuine revolutions: in Russia (1917), China (1949) and Cuba (1959) but countless coups and fascist uprisings in Germany (1933) and Italy (1922). Iran witnessed a coup that overthrew the regime of Prime Minister Mossadegh and replaced it with the Pahlavi dynasty that had ruled since 1926 with the Shah (1953). The Islamic world today is enduring historic upheavals. The Arab Spring of 2011 in Egypt set off a chain reaction of mass popular protests in other Middle East nations. While none succeeded in bringing in the granting of more political and social freedoms, we have not seen the end of such popularly-generated revolts. The Old Guard is nervous that its decades-long rule and continued legitimacy is under attack. Besides serving as a metaphor, 2020 is an expression used to signify that one has perfect vision. While the exact course of events that will trigger popular revolts for change in the three nations of the Middle East Alliance is unknown, I would like to offer an alternative 2020 vision, one that replaces the current oppression, hatred and violence that now rules in the region. The hinge on which my vision rests is with change in Iran. Change the future in Iran and peace will come to Israel, Armenia and rest of the Middle East! II After the 1979 revolution in Iran, “the Devil came ouut of the bottle” in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq and unleashed what has grown into a worldwide plague of terrorism. A book, “Iran in the Triangle Chain of Misery”, written in Persian, highlights the country’s past hundred year history and the people’s struggle for freedom and the rule of law. The colors of the Iranian flag--green, white and red—are, here not in color shown, in the picture below, inside the country’s boundaries. The green part shows peaceful demonstrations and slogans, over the last hundred years, where the people demand, in the white part, “Where is my vote?”. That question has always been answered, in the red part, with bloodshed by successive Iranian governments through assassinations, imprisonment or suspension of the III Constitution and Parliament (Majles). The clerics, with or without turbans and those supporting the crowned kings, surround Iran. Only once in the thousand years of Iran’s recent history did the people succeed in breaking that chain. That moment is known as the “Constitution Revolution” and it established a parliamentary regime in Iran. However, the Pahlavi Dynasty illegally amended the Constitution and granted dictatorial powers to the Shah. Now, after the 35-year rule by the Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khamenie, the nation’s agriculture