I am just putting this out there, and people may not agree with me, but I think the war between Iraq and Iran in the 1980's would not have happened if Reza Shah was able to get support for his western reforms in Iran before the Iranian Revolution. If he would have been able to get the full support of the people and completely westernize Iran, there most likely would not have been a war. At the time of the war, Iraq was not considered part of this Islamic Union that other countries were a part of. Ayatollah Khomeini believed that Iraq's government was evil and needed to be defeated and replaced with a government centered around Islam. Just think if Khomeini never won the people over and the Western reforms started by Reza Shah would have stuck. Iran would've been a modern "western type" state and therefore most likely would not have had a conflict with Iraq. I just thought that was an interesting thought and I wanted to share it with everyone.
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