Why Iran Was Never Colonized (feat. Faultline) 

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UK in WW1: "How DARE Germany invade NEUTRAL Belgium just to get to France! It's not even necessary to go through Belgium to get from Germany to France!" Also UK in WW1: Invades neutral Iran just because it's between British India and the Ottoman Empire, even though it's not necessary to go through it to get from British to Ottoman territory.

Great video.

Thank you for having us on!

Lots of jokes in this one! Very enjoyable and educational.

Virgin: Restate what you already said Chad: I'm bad at writing conclusions, Bye!!

They didn't escape colonialism. They just had two equally matched colonialist empires that couldn't agree on who gets what and didn't have the ability to fight it out at that moment. Kinda like what's happening now to the region, honestly, between the US, India and China.

I loved the star trek refference, with world war the original series and world war the next generation!

"flavor depravation" 🤣🤣🤣 I'M DYING!

7:17 "20 Years in the Can"

Anglo Persian oil company is the current BP

We were just a little smart and We were inciting France against Russia, England against Portugal, and Germany against England. And because of this, we were not colonized, also the mountains and the intense patriotism of Iranians helped Iran not to be colonized! 🇮🇷

Dude western Sahara was colonized by the Spanish not french and bits of Morocco was also colonized by Spain

Russia is also very diverse in various peoples too. For example, from the Dagestans & Karelians in the European half to various native peoples in Siberia, Russia has no shortage of diversity

Javid Shah! thanks to the Pahlavi's the western influence in Iran was curvestomped!

Interesting video! I would like to add a few things. For a very long time Iran was one of the world's strongest powers, even having the worlds largest standing army under the Afsharid dynasty. It was also allied to Britain for a very long time, Britain of course being a great power helped. Iran also had some luck with some good leaders and politicians such as Amir Kabir who helped modernise Iran. Iran also succefully also defeated major powers like Ottomans, Russia and every Portugal. It did also stand up to Britain. Because of this I would say that Iran was also not colonised for a very long time because it had an army to stand up against the colonial powers. Later of course as you say Iran became much weaker. There was a lot of luck there too. For example the Russians and British wanted to take over Iran after WW1, but because the Soviet union not wanting to be imperialist they denied Britain taking over Iran. After WW2 the Soviets wanted Northen Iran but America defended Iran. So I would say that Iran was not colonised because it had an strong army at the start, sometimes good politicians and a lot of luck. Edit: I would like to add a few things in the last part of the video too. The new oil deal with Britain under Reza Shah was much better than the previous one. It was not equal, but compared to what the deal was, it was much better. Reza Shah also built up Iran which helped Iran be more self sufficient even after his reign. It was also Reza Shah who refused the deal to turn Iran into a protectorate after WW1 when he came to power.

0:12 Germany: *"Am i a Joke to you?!"*

you should do nepal or bhutan aswell

Mr. KhAnubis seems to have a knack for pronouncing Persian/Irani/Farsi words... I'm impressed! He wouldn't be bad at English either, if he'd just slow down a bit... I have a really hard time understanding this guy sometimes, and I'm from Nevada!

Oh sweet, I love Faultline!

first map is wrong by the time the scramble for Africa had happened (1880s), Latin America already broke away from Spain (1820s)

Btw, everyone should watch Rudyard Kipling's Kim with Errol Flynn.

I would like to learn more about the Iranian coups throughout the 20th century. Thank you for another interesting video and the link to the new channel! Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you, friends. ✝️ :)

Nepal and Bhutan too were never colonized Maybe a video on how they escaped colonialism too?

Did Alexander not conquer Persia?

Not a particularly bad video regarding Iran’s “almost” colonized experience. However, I found your video a bit too oversimplified. There were many crucial details which were left out. If I am being honest, some parts of the country were unofficially somewhat colonized by the Anglo-Persian (later known as Anglo-Iranian) oil company in the province of khuzestan. There were specific areas built in Ahvaz for the comfort and luxury of the British employees of Anglo-Iranian; cafés, restaurants, tennis courts and dedicated bus lines with signs reading “not for Iranians”. Meanwhile, the Iranian workers of the oil company lived in mud brick houses in the ghettoes and slums of Ahvaz without proper sanitation, electricity, and plumbing of any kind. These slums were so bad that they would become massive hotspots for flies; swarms of flies looking like black clouds in the hot Iranian summer. Much of the foreign occupation prior to World War 2 under the Qajar dynasty of Iran was due to general corruption and incompetence. They were genuinely one of the most useless dynasties to ever rule Iran in its 2500-year history. There are accounts of Qajarid kings having more than 600 concubines and enjoying the greatest of luxuries. Kings who would diddle whores and run up hefty bills borrowed from European bankers and financiers while their people starved. Under this dynasty, Iran was also divided into various provinces held by tribal warlords (mostly consisting of the country’s migrant populations; Kurds, lors, and other Turkic groups). There was no resemblance of unity, whether it was political or social, just a mess of kleptocratic monarchs along with their advisory councils lacking any and all levels of competence.

im subscribed, but no notifications, since i dont want spam. i see this in my recommended, 7 views and only 40 seconds. cool.

Why USA is not marked in the map at the begining of the video ?

7:54 "Iran in 1950" That's amazing..

7:40 the oil stayed nationalised even after the so-called “coup”

Then Iranian prime minister nationalised the oil industry which made the brits who used to benefit from them very angry so they went there with other democratic nations to install an absolute monarchy.

Dident efeopia get annex by otely in ww2?????

Loved this video, but in the thumbnail, shouldn't the Russian flag be on top to be geographically accurate?

4:05 THERE ARENT THAT MANY ARABS IN IRAN. ALSO U ONLY MENTIONED IRREDENTIST GROUPS LIKE BALOCHIS AND KURDS. AZERIS KURDS AND BALOCHIS AND LURIS AND TABARIS ARE IRANIAN

@3:00 - Not that the awkward straight lines were awkward for the people who made them, of course, since making them awkward for the people living there was the entire point, creating chaos and cutting the chances of united fronts forming.

0:06 Indonesia colonized by Russia? (Dark yellow color, like the countries of the USSR)

nice

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As an Iranian , I don't want my nation to be called "something like san Francisco" or "Hejaz"! I want every foreigner to remember our cause , "This is Iran , our National identity ; and we want to look like Iranian , neither western nor far eastern"

Well done and indeed well explained! However, those old photos of Iran were actually from 70s.

0:10 Indonesia and Suriname is Russian colony? Or Russia is a Dutch colony? :D Bad choice of colors. :D

I wonder what would have happened if instead of competing for the land what would have happened if Russia and the UK just divided Iran the UK gets the south and Russia gets the north the Caspian Sea would belong entirely to Russia and the UK could connect India to its middle eastern mandates/colonies Honestly someone should make an alternative history on this

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What about Mongol and Arab occupation? Yes those were medieval times but wasn't it kind of colonized at that time?

Hormozgon/Bandar abbas and most of khuzestan is not arab, not sure why you counted them as Arabs. They’re Persian.

"kind of" reminds me of Nepal.

This video is an example of not knowing anything about another country's history and just making something after watching other people's videos who were also wrong: 1. the 1871 treaty that gave all those resources to a British person was never implemented because it caused a national uprising and people forced the king to cancel the deal. 2. The 1907 treaty between England and Russia was also never implemented because Iranians never accepted it and they had no military force in Iran to make it happen at the time. Just because two foreign countries sit down and say I stay on this side of this line you stay on that line doesn't mean Iran was colonized. because for example a year earlier revolution of 1906 had happened and despite all the money and support Russia gave to new king to overthrow the new parliament, the parliamentary forces of Iran in 1907 defeated the Russia backed king and kicked him out. That's another example like 1871 how Iranians could and did push back against colonizers. 3. The treaty of 1919 to make Iran a protectorate didn't go through because the parliament refused it and unlike what the video says it had a lot of impact because the prime minister who signed the deal lost his job and there was massive resistance across Iran to the deal. they weren't sitting around and allowing England make Iran its colony. 4. Unlike what the video says the Iranians did allow the English and Russians to use their land during ww2 but those two later joined by the US invaded Iran anyway. The reason Iranians had a favorable view to Germans at the time was technical help they received during 1930s from Germans and Italians who sent hundreds of engineers to Iran to build up their industry. 5. prime minister Mosaddegh did not try to nationalize the oil, he actually did nationalize it in 1951 and even after the coup it remained nationalized. And the British after the coup of 53 did not get the oil back. Mosaadegh legacy which is nationalization of Iranian oil and kicking out the British lives on.

I mean, Portugal kinda tried.

In Safavid Iran, tensions between Iranian bureau-crats and Turkic soldiery were well-known. Iran proper had been under Turkic rule , in one form or another , since Ghaznavid and Seljuk times . This tradition largely continued under the Afshar ( 1736-1796 ) and Qajar ( 1779-1925 ) dynasties . Johanson, L. and Bulut, C. (2006) Turkic-Iranian contact areas: Historical and linguistic aspects. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. p.32, 33

Japan: Nice brother

The Azerbaijanis derive in part from a heritage of Turkic rule over Iran, during most of the past 1,000 years. Iran adopted the Shi'a version of Islam under the rule of the Safavid Azerbaijani Turks beginning in 1500. The Turkic Qajar Dynasty (1779-1924) controlled all of present-day Iran and extensive territory in the Caucasus and Central Asia. When Colonel Reza Khan Pahlavi overthrew the Qajars, he promoted Persian language, culture, and identity at the expense of Azeri Turkish. Zartman, J.K. (2020) Conflict in the modern middle east: An encyclopedia of Civil War, Revolutions, and regime change. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. p.136

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@khAnubis are you sure iran was never colonized im sure you forgot when saudi arabia ruled iran back in the rashidun caliphate and the islamic caliphate

Iran got split between USSR and UK in ww2

you might have a diverse heritage as well: my mom getting 99% irish

I kinda wish iran would become Persia again. Just sounds fun to me. Every country should at least have a throw back Thursday you know?

Japan is an American colony currently

Can you please do a video about the Republic of Liberia and why it wasn't Colonized by the Europeans

Btw In WW1 Almost half the population of Iran died in famine

Iran look so brown in images. Where do most of the people live? In the green part up north?

Looooool Iran was colonized dozens of times

#زن_زندگی_آزادی

Gg my homeland

In fact, Turkic-speaking peoples have played a major role in Iranian history, ruling the country from the eleventh century up to the early twentieth. Even today they represent more than a quarter of Iran's population. Foltz, R. (2016) Iran in world history. Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press. p.61

I think there still is some conflict around the Iran/Persia thing. In Vancouver, Iranians prefer Persian/

It was called occupation

alexander the great: am i a joke to you?

I know I have a western view on things but I feel like after the Islamic revolution in Iran things got worse.

Do i believe this? Cuz history are not true much idk they say…..

What about the USSR invasion of Iran and refusing to leave it until UN pressured heavily on them

*laughs in Greek, Arabic, Turkic languages*

It was still called Persia back then. It's ok to call it Persia even today.

disliked because of propaganda at the end there, it's always the same with some idiots showing a few pictures of Iran back then and implying this was the whole country, back then there were also many religious people and women dressing modestly but that doesn't suit the narrative, also the obsession with iranian women dressing like that is fking creepy.

didn't get colonized + we consume more tea than the brits

It is right now, by Russia

Turks colonized Iran a few times. Mongols, Turco-Mongols and some others also colonized Iran before. Alexander the Great, etc… Iran was a colony more than not.

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Homa Katouzian, "Iranian history and politics", Published by Routledge, 2003. p. 128: "Indeed, since the formation of the Ghaznavids state in the tenth century until the fall of Qajars at the beginning of the twentieth century, most parts of the Iranian cultural regions were ruled by Turkic-speaking dynasties most of the time.

Iran stayed independent because HM Reza Shah Pahlavi united all forces of the nations and systematically forced the British out of the country from the south and forced the Russians out of the country from the north. Nothing to do with disagreements between British and Russians as they were tending to invade as much as they could anyhow but to no avail!

Actually Iran was a kind of colony of other empires, but much earlier. In the Middle Ages, the Arabs, Turks and Mongols dominated the area several times. And as everyone knows the Greeks invaded Persia even earlier, turning it into a proper colony even by modern standards, with large groups of Greeks being resettled there.

1:00 you forgot the Macedonian Empire.

this intersting

some A+ pronounciations darn

Bazed Iran

Ahh my iran was so beautiful before islamic republic such a shame 💔

some truth and the rest your imagination as per what you like to be. I'm not belittling what some western powers could have accomplished at that time, but I know that Iran is not a country to be ruled with a non-Iranian force wherever she may be. at least not for long time.

Iran is never colonized but our country lost so many land to russia and brittain

I hate when people say Georgia is eroupean

My grandpa used to work with British in Iran . He said they smelled liked shit and Russian couldn't believe Iranian soldiers got fruits and they had fresh meat as an issued meal for everybody

Why iran never be colonized? Look like why Britain never conquered by Napoleon? Same.

Iran ia a civilization with 7000 years old.Iran had great empires after islam such as safavid persian empire and afsharid empire nader shah also known as nightmare of turks❤🇮🇷☝️

iran was colonised by the macedonians, arabs and mongols

am i the only 13 yr old watching khanubis?

because it's Persian and Persian are great people and civilization

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If old colonies are in it, germany should be too

Зато што Иран није ливада !

Laughing in Greek 😂

In contrast to those Iranian officials who claim that the Turks in Iran were actually originally Persians, the late IRGC Commander Qassem Suleimani claimed that the descendants of Turkic dynasties that live in Iran are not Iranian. Suleimani claimed: "Turks are aliens and non-Iranians. For hundreds of years (during Turkic rule in Iran), Iran had no history. Non- Iranians like the Seljuks invaded and ruled Iran."74 Shaffer, B. (2023) Iran is more than persia: Ethnic politics in Iran. Berlin: De Gruyter.

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