@Xros Heart Federation Switzerland borders Germany and France. The most problematic countries in EU... So, yeah, there goes your "far from world problems".
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@@e.a1743 The Varangians conquered Russia. Granted, the Varangians are literally the people who founded the Rus in the first place (and likely the people it's named for) so I don't think it's fair to count them.
@@gufosufo337 Yup. Rurik was a Varangian (we're never told where exactly he's from, not all of them were vikings) but one popular theory for the origin of the name "Rus" posits that it's based on the Finnic name for Swedes. "Ruotsi". Which they applied to the Varangians because, y'know. Vikings.
Heh. Poland is an interesting exception. Most areas on Earth that are very flat are either barely inhabited, or are served by some sort of geographical protection (sea, mountains outlying the area). Poland is just... rip.
To be fair, Poland is sound nowadays. Next to it's old friend germany (lol) and it's old friend russia (lol). But germany ain't gonna do shit again after the last two world wars. Same as russia. Plus I hear Poland's army is pretty decent nowadays?
@@prim16 And Poland has geographical protection, even from two sides. In the north sea from angry Swedes, in the south mountain range from ferocious Slovaks! Well, being serious Poland has better borders now (less borders) with river with Germany. This Kaliningrad though...
We never been enemies, persian king opened its door to philosophers known academia enter iran and stayed there after greek conquered by Christians, plus Iranian spread greek philosophy to the European and rest of the world.
Imagine what the Iranians would be without a certain unnameable religion governing their lives. :/ An interesting tidbit of the human migration is that the first of man to to really really really settle, thrive and live in Eastern Europe and the northern Germanic areas more than likely migrated from steppes of modern day Iran/Afghanistan to the northwest. Our dope ancestors from those area woulda been a helluva more advanced, than they once already were had the setback of al ha snack bar not happened. Before one starts getting upset, I’m not saying 100% from the area. I’m saying some of the first to the Germanic areas were from the areas of Iran/Afghanistan. This isn’t a theory, it’s not based on linguistics either, strictly based on DNA haplogroups which has shown that in-fact the nearest common ancestor most northern Europeans have in common, came from the aforementioned areas first. Hence the %s are minimal but date accurately to support the archeological evidence.
Jeffrey Daniel without Iran’s government Iran would be a really nice place. My mom comes from the north eastern part of Iran where all the houses look like rich American neighbourhoods except all the houses are villas. I would be living there right now if it wasn’t for the terrible government.
Iran's geography is actually kind of great even if it does have drawbacks, this is why Persia has been a country more or less continuously throughout human history.
How come you spazz out so easily? I worked with an Iranian and he would snatch stuff out of my hand and yell at me. Assuming you're Persian, if not then nevermind.
@@Editorwithchai k yes mountains secure it’s not being invaded but for what Tons of ethnic and religious factions fighting all Bec the gd Brits just HAD to control this and it succeeded They will never stop fighting just like the brits thiught
You'd have a point if Iran hadn't been conquered by numerous foreign powers from multiple different points throughout history. Seriously, anti-Arab Iranians love to point out how fiercely Sassanid Persia tried to resist the Arabs, even though the Arabs conquered it very swiftly.
The Iraq-Iran war history is manipulated. Iran was about to conquer the city of Faw in Iraq because of oil and claiming it it's their land, and the war began
Did you miss the part about how difficult it is to keep the mountainous region under the control of one government? What about the part about how difficult it is to supply a war effort across the Zagros mountains? And the part about how difficult it is for Iran to have naval power because of the easily blockaded Hormuz? Iran's geography gives it only one benefit. It can't be moved from that one spot. Otherwise, it is incredibly difficult for Iran to actually expand it's size and influence. All they have now is oil located in an area that could easily be taken from them.
IRAQ win a war against Iran during the regime of Saddam Hussein the dictator and Iran military were more advanced but Iraq win so the true power can only be shown when the real battle starts Everyone nowadays can say I has better army than you
@@aboodbb8774 Iraq won ? lol Saddam wanted to change Iranian gov and Iran was defending. Iran achieved its goal and Saddam failed. And look and Iran & Iran now.
@@volcryndarkstar actually it doesn't. cause most of the military build-up of Iran is concentrated on this area as well. also no country can attack Iran cause in order to do that they're gonna have to come through a choke point which Iran totally dominates. also no bases of attack to Iran is gonna be safe cause any act of oppression from a foreign power from a neighbor soil, would turn that neighbor into an enemy and lead to its destruction. plus Iran has a lot of allies in middle east which would be drawn to war cause they know that Iran is crucial for their survival against the aggression of the axis of Evil. cause after Iran, they will be the next target of the warmongers.
khiareozma khiar It does actually suck. All your energy supplies can be destroyed in Ahvaz in minutes. Your army would struggle to gather support through the mountains to reach it. Iranian Army cannot resist the modern Air Force of the United States or the EU.
@@sheedmm2174 modern airforce of US or EU haha nice joke. There is no need to go through the mountain, because many missile silos are made in south, in the mountains... beside that Ahvaz is not only Iran... if a country wants to occupy Iran like Iraq, it has to go through mountains from west and south, and desserts from east... remember soviet lost in Afghanistan. Nice try
I’ve always wanted to travel to Iran. Someday! I can feel the love. We have so much respect to old civilizations like us. Egypt, Iran, India, China, Japan. But that’s the beautiful thing in our world. If every nation was the same it would be so boring. Greetings and Hugs from Greece 🥰😘
@@soroushai2374 Actually I don't want any attention because people study our civilizations at their schools, I wrote a fact that Sumer is oldest than all of them. Why are you mad? have a little of confidence! 🙂
@mufuruzi There was Persia not Iran (a modern country made of multiple different groups of people) Iraq is the name of this land beside Mesopotamia or Bilad Al Rafedin or Beith Nahrin at Aramic Semetic language... After Persian invasion their was Baghdad and Abbasid caliphate who destroyed ancient Persia and ruled your land for a couple times from Baghdad...
hey mate, i know its been more than a year since youve left this comment here, i just wanted to say i have this same feeling, its like something inside me is calling me, i donno where youre from, BUT, right now irans economy is in crisis, so no matter what, its damn cheap to visit iran, theres a realm inside zagross mountains called, dezful, its so damn unique in its... everything google up some pictures of it when you have time, lets see if youll feel the same
@@davidtuttle7556 Not at all David, he even explained it in the video. It's difficult to box it in and contain it because it is so fractured and divided by mountainous terrain. RealLifeLore just doesn't like the idea that Iran would be a tough nut to crack for the US and its allies in the area lol
@@mirandapillsbury7885 yet Any respectable Navy can block the Gulf of Aden and the entrance to the Straits, effectively blocking the flow of Iranian petroleum exports.
The reason why the US and western powers are being aggressive towards Iran. Because Iran wont let these western oil companies to operate in Iran ANYMORE
I’m 64 and originally from Iran but spent most of my life in the states… close to 50 years of it. I started traveling to Iran, learning about it, and its culture after my retirement a few years ago. I couldn’t disagree more with the findings and the title of this video. Iran’s unique geography is its greatest strength imho. There are major roads throughout its numerous mountain ranges to satisfy their commercial or military requirements while making the mainland easily defendable. I’ve traveled and spoken to people of various tribes in the south (even some Arabic speaking ones) as well as the Turks in the north and just about everything in between. They all patriotically associate themselves with Iran unlike what this video implies. That is in spite of people’s general dissatisfaction with the current government. Strait of Hurmuz is also a huge bargaining chip and deterrent for Iran’s potential enemies since it is totally controlled by Iran not to mention more than 200 hundred miles of additional southern shores outside of it. Iran might seek influence to its west (and east btw... as anyone would) but it has never tried to expand its borders (as this video suggests) judging by its history unless you go back 2000 years or more. Makes me wonder what this guy was smoking when he came up with all his conclusions!
This is a propaganda channel, like CaspianReport. They all have anti eastern agendas and the way they present their narratives in their videos paints false pictures to further their goals. Pan turks and pan arabs have more resources and access to international media tools, and they are doing everything they can to paint Iran's whole being in a bad light.
Aside from their rich history, many castles and ruins to explore, they also have some of the most beautiful women in any country on earth. Citation: ☝️
I have no sympathy for religious extremist regimes. Countries like Iran, China, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, etc. are the Nazis of our time. Edit: To clarify, I'm not saying China and North Korea are religious extremists. I'm saying that (religious extremist) Iran is one of the most tyrannical countries of our time, amongst others.
@@sudonim7552 China, religious extremist, realy now also, religiously extremist? ok, Saudi Arabia, you know, the US ally that beheads people for witchcraft? :o)
@@sudonim7552 You do realise that America has a proven track record of creating, funding and arming various terrorist organisations, right? And now you want to talk about "religious extremism"? The only terrorist organisation in this world is the United States of America; the epitome of evil.
Iran's geography doesn't suck. Most of the points you mentioned such as the Zagros mountains and the Strait of Hormuz are double edged swords; they can be an advantage or a disadvantage depending on the situation. They only major thing that Iran lacks is easily cultivatable agricultural land in the form of river valleys or flood plains.
@@buttsufancypantsu1644 wtf? You ask any Iranian if they’re a victim and they’ll say only of their government. Iranians are very proud people especially when it comes to foreign powers and would hate to be victimised, it’s not pc to victimise Iranians because Iranian themselves despise it, no matter their hardships they never give up their pride it’s a feature which united all the different ethnic groups that live in iran
@@mozorellastick2583 The people living in Iran have very little impact on what counts as PC in the developed world. PC culture is strongly determined and influenced by the political left, primarily in the US, EU, along with Britain and her Commonwealth. I've never said anything about the Iranian people believing they're victims because this isn't at all what this is about - painting Iran as the victim has almost nothing to do with the Iranian people and everything to do with leftist politics in wealthy nations halfway across the globe from them.
Why does everyone think that Iran's ethnic groups want to rise against Iran? Saddam thought the same thing when he attacked, but the reality is something else. Culturally, Iran has made all people consider themselves Iranians. In general, in Iran, Persian, Arab, Kurdish and Azeri and the rest only refer to the language and place of life. Everyone first considers themselves Iranian and then mentions the language and place of life. All previous empires are considered Iranian and they love it. It is enough to see Iran closely. In terms of nationality, it has a lot of integrity. Although it has its own problems, including the economy!
this geography actually seems pretty good. they have mountains protecting them from* invasions in the north and west and water protecting from the north south as well.
@@ep1x3 When I rate something, I rate the middle-good thing 5/10. So my rarings just seem pessimistic, but 6,5/10 isn't that bad. It is actally in the top 15% or so good geografy countries. What takes the geografy of this country down is mainly: - Its neighboors. - The hard to protect oil fields. - Since its all mountain, roads can be a problem. Trust a norwegian on this one.
@Indian Stars yes but pakistan is not in position to be chinas friend...your gardener isn't your friend you are friendly to your gardener as long as he works well lol
Great video, but Iran's transportation infrastructure is better than you think. There are good highways and trains going through the mountains. And while Iran is made up of different communities, when it comes to a foreign invasion it is one united country.
706easy what about China or India? Or even Russia? They're basically just a Russian proxy at this point, so I'd think Russia would be more geo-strategically important. Especially since if they really wanted, they have enough resources to outcompete the west. The resources are just extremely isolated in arctic tundra, but with herculean effort, they really do control more resources than us in the west.
@@BothHands1 doubt it. Russia is far too poor to be really completing with the entire west, its got resource, sure, not nothing irreplaceable. for instance the us is now one of the world's largest oil producers
Funny enough, All the reasons why he mentioned is the reason why Iran's geography is AMAZING. Iran is nearly impossible to invade via land troops because it's fortressed by mountains, and the strait of hormuz can be solved by taking control of both sides and just fighting off a blockade.
It's actually perfect! I'd love to have that geography in a strategy game! Just build defenses on the choke points and take your time building your civilization, then when you're ready, unleash it in the enemies!
Iran's geographic limitation would be that its arid landscape means despite the age of its civilisation, it could never develop into the population size of China or India. By contrast, Iran has the perfect defensive geography which makes any invasion of the Persian heartland extremely difficult. Trump just backed out of escalating a conflict with Iran, because it will be much more than 10x worse than Iraq. In thousands of years of history, I can think of Greeks, Arabs and Mongols as the only civilisations ever to successfully conquer the Persian heartland.
@@edgarpryor3233 he destroyed american prestige...iran would have never dared to do to america under any other president, what they did under trum. They knew trump is al words and all he cares about is being petted on the head ( good boy, beautiful boy, smart boy...you know bible better than anybody ever....you are the least racist person ever etc etc loool)....if you have a car salesman as you president this is what you get. China is moving fast while putin is the most powerful person in the world, with a country which produces shit.....why? Amercans are tribal idiots...
@@farda8473 Iran would never attack Americans or American interests if Trump wasn't President, unless the President was Obama, or Bush, or Clinton, or Bush, or Reagan....
Well it's estimated that if Mongols didn't invade Iran, the country would have had 10x more population in the current era. Mongols destroyed multiple big Iranian cities, like Neyshaboor, and burned so many of our cultural heritage. The country fell into a very miserable state after that and was plagued with famines for multiple centuries.
Wendover, after making videos on US, Indian, Chinese, Russian, Brazilian, and Greek geography, hasn't touch this subject since. So, I am glad someone picked up the mantle.
I mean, he's not wrong. The US' only negatives are natural disasters like hurricanes on the east coast, "Tornado Ally", the huge volcano under Yellow Stone, Earthquakes, and I guess the forest fires on the west coast. The US' geography and location is OP as fuck.
@@zylnexxd842 Mexico and Canada weren't always weak. The US made them weak; nothing wrong with that, but it wasn't always that way. In fact, US managed to defeat them bc it had the best geography. Canada has little habitable land, compared to its total land area, while Mexico has various mountains which leads to lower agriculture yield and slower population growth. On the other hand, the geography of the US has no real disadvantages.
Iran invented roads (not paved ones like the Romans invented) and they had the first courier system during the Achaemenid empire which stretch from Greece and Egypt to Northern India. That dynasty was not a despotic state, first empire in History to have freedom of religion. The other thing is Iran was always bigger than modern day Iran so using its modern size when talking about the past land size doesn’t make sense, since Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Babylon and Kurdistan were always a part of it for long periods of time.
Freedom of religion is a nice thing, but that doesn’t inherently contradict someone having absolute power, which is what a despot is. Also, you comment on it’s pre-modern size makes no sense. A majority of the video referenced its war with Iraq, oil economy, and routes for expansion in a modern context (while admitting historical expansion in a majority of the places you mentioned). Does that mean that we need to factor in the Roman Empire while talking about modern Italy’s geography and economy? No? Then there’s your answer.
Amin Mahjoob Alright, so they were being nice with their absolute power? Also has nothing to do with the context of the video being set in modern time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@mxn1948 we can go wherever we want. we have good relations with our neighbors, just not the south of the country who are supporting the Zionist Devils.
@@sudonim7552 not really anymore. It may have been the case in the 80's when Iran was at its weakest. now there's really nothing you can do short of nukes.
@Suqmadiq Icewallowcum Technically they do because of the geography of the country being high. But in terms of influence, power, intelligence, passport, army, art, history, industrialization, healthcare, trade, relationships with other nations, colleges, education, sports, renewable energy, land size, people's unity, freedom, and agriculture. They are not even close to being in the high ground in 95% of the mentioned fields. Not even oil.
As an Iranian i must say that "crossing the zagros mountains " is not as difficult and hard as you've said and shown. Our road system is very good actually. (Relatively speaking)
I love how the title says Iran’s geography sucks only because it’s hard to invade. Iran is made out of multiple ethnics and that makes its culture pretty rich. Also Iran’s geography is an amazing one in the world because if you travel to iran at one time you can experience all four seasons from north to south. Keep burning fellas
@@hello123s but Iran has the benefit of not containing half the world population in it so you can move around a lot more freely on the top of being much cleaner than india. Cry harder
@@kevinhernandez1095 as an iranian who used to live there some10 yrs ago i 100% agree the ppl are good but thats just about it if you are not one of the top1% in that country ur fucked
That’s such a lazy argument. The US and its closest trading partner, Canada, have gigantic amounts of oil and gas, especially now that fracking is permitted (environmental consequences notwithstanding).
The U.S isn’t the only nation that exploited or went to war for flimsy reason for resources. In fact during the Libya revolution, it was France that help enact a no fly zone in Libya interfering and allowed a more pro-western government to take its place.
The Saudis do have the most oil. (^_^) The Iranians can't even get the Chinese to commit to oil field development projects due to US sanctions. A war between the two, the winner gets a whole lot of oil.
@Nick with no last name I know. I just made that statement as the comment had the Saudis and the Iranians comparing oil reserves. The Saudis DO have more oil than the Iranians and Venezuela has more than the Saudis (and everyone else). Shame that Venezuela sucks at being a country such that they can't utilize those fields properly and have to import oil...
@@glasslakes I am. I intentionally changed my name online because I want to be completely removed from everything that has to do with Islam and Iran. My real name is Ali . A name I have to endure until I can move out and legally change my name.
@Linus Haber Have you lived here? Yeah the nature and the varied biomes are cool but a lot of people here are really behind the times and their line of thinking is really outdated and outright disgusting, not to mention the politics here are a goddamn mess. We're on the verge of war and inflation has never been worse.
Did you forget a few important things in this video about Iraq/ Saddam Hussein being part of a proxy war and supported by a superpower? That and the chemical weapons given to saddam to use on Iran may have been a factor in Iran not outright beating Iraq. Iraq later decided Kuwait would be easier and miscalculated on US support.
Hmm, still it's amazing how Cyrus The great conquered Iran/Persia, and didn't rule with an iron fist, but rather being famously the kindest monarch in ancient history
Cyrus the Great was warrior king and one of the best military commanders in history who conquered 3 of the most powerful empires of is time but also a good person but is war killed many peoples in is time for example in only one battle more than 100,000 got killed that crazy number form more than 2500 years ago
Iran: *tries to expand * Iraq: we got geography on our side North: we got geography on our side Afghanistan: we got geography on our side Pakistan: we haven't been using condoms
@@irfanali-zt4dp if we look at their military status. Pakistan is stronger even without nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons act like cherry on the cake that solidifies Pakistani dominance and deters any iranian misadventure. But it is worth mentioning that while iran is busy towards its west (iraq and syria) and south (Arab countries) pakistan is also very busy towards its Eastern border with India which is a hotline and very tense. it is involved in fighting terrorism on its western border with Afghanistan. The Pakistan iran border is less manned and both countries have no interest in creating any tensions along this border.
Zagros Mountain (in Western Iran) Alborz Mountain (in Northern Iran) Khuzestan (oil-rich region in West Iran) 6:41 Iran's oil & gas reserves 7:48 Strait of Hormuz
@@DaDARKPass its not teheran, its Tehran, there is no e in it. As an Iranian I found the comment funny and dont criticize some1 if u also say it incorrectly
yeah idk, but somebody attack that plains with a lot of oil and blockades the Hormuz strait, they can wait there until the economy collapse dan destroy the country entirely
@@longshorts7148 If any country's supplies run out they are screwed. Iran has plenty of mineral resources, plenty of room for producing renewable energy that would last the country to the end of times (and is actually its second source of income, as they directly supply neighboring countries with less favorable geography), access to two different seas and a direct ocean route that the video conveniently disregarded, and plenty of arable land as well, which is actually the second reason why the Khuzestan province is so important to the country, being among its most fertile. All in all, I don't think the video did its research that well. The only way Iran is screwed is the sanctions, which had to be put on literally _everything_ for it to work, and it seems that even that is no longer a concern with China being ready to fill the gap. All in all, collapsing Iran isn't easy at all, which is why 4 of the greatest empires in the history of the world as well as the Islam of the Golden Ages had Iran as their seat of power. They could blockade 3 entire continents from there.
When the only two people who've successfully conquered you are Alexander and Kublai Khan, that's a very good track record. Iran (well Persia) has always been a dominant power in the Middle East since the Achaemenid.
@@jyashin you forgot the timurids, parthians/parni, seljuks, etc etc. They may have integrated with the native iranian culture BUT they all were alien to the region at first.
8:00 you are actually wrong. Xerxes the great (Achaemenid Empire) and his successors had the strongest navy of their time. During Parthian Empire and Sassanid Empire also, we don't know much about them, but we do know that they have actually reached Tanzania! Also during Pahlavi era, Iran's navy was the strongest in the middle east, had exclusive models built for it by USA and GB, and president Carter at one point said that Iran has certain Naval Destroyers that USA didn't have. Shah had a program to expand Iranian navy to the Indian Ocean, but the revolution happened and the program was terminated. Iran's Navy had battles with GB's navy, and won couple of them. Also it participated in the Oman's conflicts with the communists and helped Iman defeat them.
Bilal بلال bruh shut the heck up my father died in war because of Saddam’s chemical bombs do you know how many Iranian even nowadays are suffering from what American and Iraqi people did to them, people call Nazi as bad characters but American and english and probably even Iraqi people did worse to us, half of the population of Iran suffered from hunger that caused by english people and American who sold chemical weapons to Saddam which left millions of Iranian who still suffer from these injuries.
Well during Alexander conquest, the Persian also hired thousands Greek Hoplite mercenaries. After Alexander died, many nations (Persian, Bachtrian, Egyptian, even Roman) copied the Macedonian Phalanxs. So greek style units were actually very common at that time.
@@anggi8699 with all respect my friend , these are fiction made at modern days to make Alexander's moves acceptable for west culture. You know that Iranians (cyrus the great) said that everyone is free to choose being a part of empire or not. What about Alexander ? He was a brutal killer without any human like action.
@@Mishe03 Meh.... people will use whatever works. The greek mercenaries were employed by the Persian because the greeks knows how to fight other greeks. Meanwhile, Alexander used more horse achers and Persian light infantries in Bachtria, Sogdia and Indus river because he faced a more mobile war. During war people are more pragmatic. The vikings were employed by the Christian Byzantium. The Indian elephant riders, the Numidian horsemen, and the Iberian Gallic warriors were employed by Hanibal. The German tribes were employed by the roman as Auxillary units. Just because one type of units were originated in particular nation or region does not mean they cannot be deployed somewhere else. I'm sorry if I offended you in anyway. I studied Alexander and I know that he was a megalomaniac, he showed this trait when he massacred the citizen of Thebes. Those massacre made him so unpopular among greek citizens. He also has many cases of narcisistic and delusional of grandeur which could only be tolerated by the troops because he keep winning battles. I believe the whole reason why Alexander invaded Persia was because he want to save his own head. He need money to bribe the Macedonian nobles so he plundered the Persian empire. He used Persian money to buy loyalty from Macedonian nobels and in return the Nobles would not try to kill him.
@@anggi8699 the only reason that Iran was defeated against Alexander was because of corruption among the religious figureheads who weakened Iran by creating rifts and internal conflicts that destroyed the unity among the Persian Forces. you don't need horse archers when you have the higher ground. but if you have divided forces who fight among themselves, it basically would become impossible to defend yourself against a foreign aggressor. you can look up what I just said about Persian history on that time.
@@sheedmm2174 Are you some kind of roasted Iraqi? The Iraqi forces barely reached outskirts of Ahvaz, which is about 80 km away from the border, and Ahvaz itself is more than a hundred km away from foothills of Zagros mountains. so how they did reach Zagros mountains? pls explain.
DarthGaming Plains with the food stores scorched, virtually no population and a devastating winter along with a massive territory that would have to be conquered for someone to claim victory.
Really good work. Iran just finished a major oil terminal on the sea of oman, over a hundred miles away from Hormuz, in order to mitigate their vulnerability to possible strikes on Kharg Island, their major oil export port, incase of a war with America.
Not really these days due to shale oil fields. The Chinese??? Oh yes. Their own oil consumption is going through the roof, will dwarf US consumption, and have very little reserves of their own. Beijing is going to claim that Chinese fisherman fished close to Iranian waters in the old dynasties, and will then proceed to take Iran.
@@MrZZooh The middle-east could easily be the world's strongest economic zone. Connecting africa, asia and europe it could become very dominant very quickly. Let's hope stability and unity can be achieved. If Europe could do it after two world wars and a long cold war, I think ME can do it too.
@@MrZZooh you see islam says deffend and help your brother against the harm of others So yea we cant get along with israel because of what they did and what they are doing to our beothers and sisters in palestine. You wanna say israel did nothing or they are innocent? You can read about dir o yasin village One of many examples
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New Zealand have the best geography because it is so far from world problems
@Xros Heart Federation if nuclear attack happen in France or Germany even Switzerland will be damaged
@Xros Heart Federation Switzerland borders Germany and France. The most problematic countries in EU... So, yeah, there goes your "far from world problems".
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Time to liberate NZ from the tyrannical rule of the Hobbits and Smeagol. After hours of investigation, the intelligence community has discovered weapons of mass destruction: Smaug, Balrog, Arkenstone, Orlando Bloom and sexy hobbits.
WW1 British generals: "That's cute"
I'm from new Zealand ❤❤❤
Iran: My geography sucks
Mongolia: *Only Bordering China and Russia*
They r the only ones to conquer both of them lol.
that's not too bad...
-Balkans
@@e.a1743 The Varangians conquered Russia. Granted, the Varangians are literally the people who founded the Rus in the first place (and likely the people it's named for) so I don't think it's fair to count them.
@@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes but the varangians were the byzantine emperors bodyguard mostly made up of vikings
@@gufosufo337 Yup. Rurik was a Varangian (we're never told where exactly he's from, not all of them were vikings) but one popular theory for the origin of the name "Rus" posits that it's based on the Finnic name for Swedes. "Ruotsi". Which they applied to the Varangians because, y'know. Vikings.
Iran: My geography sucks
Poland: hold my flat and surrounded territory
Heh. Poland is an interesting exception. Most areas on Earth that are very flat are either barely inhabited, or are served by some sort of geographical protection (sea, mountains outlying the area). Poland is just... rip.
To be fair, Poland is sound nowadays. Next to it's old friend germany (lol) and it's old friend russia (lol).
But germany ain't gonna do shit again after the last two world wars. Same as russia.
Plus I hear Poland's army is pretty decent nowadays?
@@prim16 And Poland has geographical protection, even from two sides. In the north sea from angry Swedes, in the south mountain range from ferocious Slovaks!
Well, being serious Poland has better borders now (less borders) with river with Germany. This Kaliningrad though...
@@prim16 'Interesting exceptions' don't happen over hundreds of years.
Then merging with other nations to create a better situation?
Iran: It's over, Iraq. I have the high ground!
*I HATE YOUUUU!!!*
Iraq: you dare underestimate my power
Yea i would say Iraqs geography sucks 😑
@GodSlayer [T] I know right ? it was kinda also the ottomans fault but really it's the british .
Iran:don't try it iraq
Even though we had wars since 500 B.C, we always respect Persian people. Greetings from your old & ancient enemies, Greece. 🇬🇷🇮🇷
We never been enemies, persian king opened its door to philosophers known academia enter iran and stayed there after greek conquered by Christians, plus Iranian spread greek philosophy to the European and rest of the world.
i personally think iranians aka persians are dope af
Jovan Jole thanks bro
Imagine what the Iranians would be without a certain unnameable religion governing their lives. :/
An interesting tidbit of the human migration is that the first of man to to really really really settle, thrive and live in Eastern Europe and the northern Germanic areas more than likely migrated from steppes of modern day Iran/Afghanistan to the northwest. Our dope ancestors from those area woulda been a helluva more advanced, than they once already were had the setback of al ha snack bar not happened.
Before one starts getting upset, I’m not saying 100% from the area. I’m saying some of the first to the Germanic areas were from the areas of Iran/Afghanistan. This isn’t a theory, it’s not based on linguistics either, strictly based on DNA haplogroups which has shown that in-fact the nearest common ancestor most northern Europeans have in common, came from the aforementioned areas first. Hence the %s are minimal but date accurately to support the archeological evidence.
Jeffrey Daniel without Iran’s government Iran would be a really nice place. My mom comes from the north eastern part of Iran where all the houses look like rich American neighbourhoods except all the houses are villas. I would be living there right now if it wasn’t for the terrible government.
Iran's geography is actually kind of great even if it does have drawbacks, this is why Persia has been a country more or less continuously throughout human history.
How come you spazz out so easily? I worked with an Iranian and he would snatch stuff out of my hand and yell at me. Assuming you're Persian, if not then nevermind.
@@lifeisactuallyveryboring.7771 I'm Australian lol.
@@adavidavis2762 I'm Canadian haha, were loyalist brothers!
@kkthxk Turbin you mean?
@kkthxk lols, at least be a informed racist, you sad pathetic ignorant boomer
Iran: our geography sucks
Chile: atleast you can go east and west
CHILE LONG
@@mantasltu2365 CHILE LONK
Except Chile is in much better shape than Iran
Ik, I’m Chilean and we don’t find this a problem at all 🤷♂️
San Marino: hm
One of the most secure countries in the world. Those things you recalled as barriers are natural gifts that secure PERSIA for centuries.
What do you mean by 'secure' exactly..??
Secure? U mean it will become a Wasteland and when the world moves further and further away from oil it will have NOTHING Bec there is no economy
@@pecan11 By secure they mean the high mountains that are guarding Iran.
@@Editorwithchai k yes mountains secure it’s not being invaded but for what Tons of ethnic and religious factions fighting all Bec the gd Brits just HAD to control this and it succeeded They will never stop fighting just like the brits thiught
You'd have a point if Iran hadn't been conquered by numerous foreign powers from multiple different points throughout history. Seriously, anti-Arab Iranians love to point out how fiercely Sassanid Persia tried to resist the Arabs, even though the Arabs conquered it very swiftly.
Why Iran's geography sucks?
Easy
They're between Iraq and a hard place!!
Great pun!
jihad place'
Boo~!
underrated
U can also use word "Terroristan" rather than hard place, for Pakistan.
Studying this video before I get drafted into World War 3
chryco4 World War 3 wouldn’t happen because the United Nation would deploy peacekeeping soldiers to help end the war as quickly as possible
@@TdgtornadoFake It's a joke lol
Was looking for someone to comment this😂
@@TdgtornadoFake No they wouldn't because the UN is fucking useless
@@TdgtornadoFake We all know the UN doesn't do anything
During Iran-Iraq war of the 1980's
Iraq: _Tries to capitalise the revolution_
Iran: *It's over Iraq, I have the high ground*
*I am the high ground*
Iraq: you underestimate my power!!
Iran: Dont Try
You know the drill:v
The Iraq-Iran war history is manipulated.
Iran was about to conquer the city of Faw in Iraq because of oil and claiming it it's their land, and the war began
I was waiting for someone to make this comment lol
Nice lion King reference
Iran probably has the most beautiful mountains of all kinds.
Nope baltistan has the best
i mean...
as a iranian i can both agree and disagree
@@jassi4660 That or Kyrgyzstan
Lol no
@@jassi4660 You can't beat the Zagros mountain.
Iran: "Our geography sucks"
Afghanistan: *Has taller mountains, roads are impossible to build, Taliban hides in mountains, is very dry*
He mentioned that in the video man.
@@nithinsrivatsa4726 he only metioned that it had taller mountains
He also said even more difficult to control, and all the other points you mentioned come under that
Iran gas taller mountains
AFGHANISTAN is the GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES...
70% of what you said is an advantage for the country.
Yeah, the geography sucks for the invaders
Ankur Gaikwad the owner should be happy!
Did you miss the part about how difficult it is to keep the mountainous region under the control of one government? What about the part about how difficult it is to supply a war effort across the Zagros mountains? And the part about how difficult it is for Iran to have naval power because of the easily blockaded Hormuz? Iran's geography gives it only one benefit. It can't be moved from that one spot. Otherwise, it is incredibly difficult for Iran to actually expand it's size and influence. All they have now is oil located in an area that could easily be taken from them.
@@sudonim7552 they have lot of oil in other areas too
Name Name that's the 30% of what have been said.
The title should be "Why Iran's Geography Sucks For Invaders"
It's hard to control Iran, both for invaders and for any government
That’s ironic
Watch the video again.
It doesn't sucks only for invaders.
IRAQ win a war against Iran during the regime of Saddam Hussein the dictator and Iran military were more advanced but Iraq win so the true power can only be shown when the real battle starts
Everyone nowadays can say I has better army than you
@@aboodbb8774 Iraq won ? lol
Saddam wanted to change Iranian gov and Iran was defending. Iran achieved its goal and Saddam failed. And look and Iran & Iran now.
Iran: we have big mountains that are protecting us from enemies!
Switzerland: hold my overpriced chocolate
6:20 When he says greeks, he should be saying North Macedonian. Although, they were basicly greeks.
NEVER DISRESPECT ALEXANDER THE GREAT. *Salutes*
@@Real_Tower_Pizza what
*Laughs in Nepal*
@@Real_Tower_Pizza arent north macedonians basically slavs now?
Lmao as a persian i can say iran looks like a messy dumpster compare to switzerland.
USA : i have the strongest military on earth.
Iran: hold my mountainous geography
I was thinking just that
Have*
That’s cute. Afghanistan said the same thing. So did japan
@@erockstoenescu6171 to be fair to Afghanistan, it was alone against both the us and the uk
@@erockstoenescu6171 Has the war on Afghanistan ended? Was Japan Mainland conquered?
You know whose geography actually sucks? Maldives. The islands will be going underwater in a matter of decades, a century or two tops.
If Maldives's geography sucks, try Kiribati or Tuvalu.
Salvador Laurente Jr No, you’re wrong. The Maldives’ is significantly worse
@@creativename4879 Netherlands
The Dutch have already signed a comprehensive peace treaty with the sea after defeating it in the great Dutch-Oceanic War.
Alex S Lol but they have it covered they literally dig themselves out of the sea
It sounds like Iran's geography doesn't suck for Iran
Well it limits their infrastructur which in general makes everything more complicated and expensive
Well their most valuable territory is also in the most vulnerable possible location so yeah, it kind of does.
@@volcryndarkstar actually it doesn't. cause most of the military build-up of Iran is concentrated on this area as well. also no country can attack Iran cause in order to do that they're gonna have to come through a choke point which Iran totally dominates. also no bases of attack to Iran is gonna be safe cause any act of oppression from a foreign power from a neighbor soil, would turn that neighbor into an enemy and lead to its destruction. plus Iran has a lot of allies in middle east which would be drawn to war cause they know that Iran is crucial for their survival against the aggression of the axis of Evil. cause after Iran, they will be the next target of the warmongers.
khiareozma khiar
It does actually suck.
All your energy supplies can be destroyed in Ahvaz in minutes. Your army would struggle to gather support through the mountains to reach it.
Iranian Army cannot resist the modern Air Force of the United States or the EU.
@@sheedmm2174 modern airforce of US or EU haha nice joke. There is no need to go through the mountain, because many missile silos are made in south, in the mountains... beside that Ahvaz is not only Iran... if a country wants to occupy Iran like Iraq, it has to go through mountains from west and south, and desserts from east... remember soviet lost in Afghanistan. Nice try
I’ve always wanted to travel to Iran. Someday! I can feel the love. We have so much respect to old civilizations like us. Egypt, Iran, India, China, Japan. But that’s the beautiful thing in our world. If every nation was the same it would be so boring. Greetings and Hugs from Greece 🥰😘
Greece is such a beautiful and glorious country. The amount of cultural exchange that our countries had says it all. You will be welcomed here ❤️🥰
Iraqi civilizations are oldest than all of what you've mentioned!
@@mohammedkh4321 lol someone wants attention 😂
@@soroushai2374 Actually I don't want any attention because people study our civilizations at their schools, I wrote a fact that Sumer is oldest than all of them. Why are you mad? have a little of confidence! 🙂
@mufuruzi There was Persia not Iran (a modern country made of multiple different groups of people) Iraq is the name of this land beside Mesopotamia or Bilad Al Rafedin or Beith Nahrin at Aramic Semetic language... After Persian invasion their was Baghdad and Abbasid caliphate who destroyed ancient Persia and ruled your land for a couple times from Baghdad...
Everything in Iran: *Exists
RealLifeLore: Its sort of a double-edged sword.
😂
the geography of Iran is so unique . they have 4 seasons at the same time. swim in south and ski in the north.
Same happens in Pakistan too, you aren't the only one
@@pingpong1465 for the love of god shut the fuck up
@@pingpong1465 what is wrong with you ??why are you in all comments ??😂
Calm down budy
@@the.r32 shutup
@@the.r32 lol when did I hate?? I said same kinda seasons are there in Pakistan too
Iran: we are sorrounded by Mountains that protect us from enemies
Reallifelore: Iran’s geography sucks
its like walls,it can keep people out but it keeps people in,but it makes for a hell of a view :D
if you get to the right high ofc
@@jacktheripper5112 it is breath tacking!
@@manijehsasi3664 taking* srsly the wording is really weird
@@jacktheripper5112 sorry for misspelling, the keyboard fault. Iran mountains view takes my breath away!
@@jacktheripper5112 sorry for misspelling, keyboard did it. Iran mountains views takes my breath away!
I’ve always loved Iran’s natural landscape for some reason. It’s so captivating to me.
you are welcome to visit
hey mate,
i know its been more than a year since youve left this comment here,
i just wanted to say i have this same feeling, its like something inside me is calling me,
i donno where youre from,
BUT, right now irans economy is in crisis, so no matter what, its damn cheap to visit iran,
theres a realm inside zagross mountains called, dezful, its so damn unique in its... everything
google up some pictures of it when you have time, lets see if youll feel the same
looks like a cat
RealLifeLore: Iran's Geography Sucks!
ME: Why?
RealLifeLore: Cuz it's hard to invade!
Me: hmmm...?
Nailed it
It's hard to invade, but it's easily boxed in and contained.
@@davidtuttle7556 Not at all David, he even explained it in the video. It's difficult to box it in and contain it because it is so fractured and divided by mountainous terrain. RealLifeLore just doesn't like the idea that Iran would be a tough nut to crack for the US and its allies in the area lol
OY VEY!
@@mirandapillsbury7885 yet Any respectable Navy can block the Gulf of Aden and the entrance to the Straits, effectively blocking the flow of Iranian petroleum exports.
Iraq: We shall conquer Iran!
Zagros mountains: I'm about to end this country's whole career
Yes but actually no
Zagros Mountains: I’m about to end both country’s whole careers
I will stop you right there*
Mongols
And Iraq went downhill from then on.
Iran: has 10% of world's oil
USA: *Heavy Breathing*
We don't give a shit about their oil anymore. The US is the number one oil producer in the world now thanks to fracking.
waldo gehrad thanks to fracking
This is the true reason of upcoming invasion
Ecsta-
The reason why the US and western powers are being aggressive towards Iran. Because Iran wont let these western oil companies to operate in Iran ANYMORE
I’m 64 and originally from Iran but spent most of my life in the states… close to 50 years of it. I started traveling to Iran, learning about it, and its culture after my retirement a few years ago. I couldn’t disagree more with the findings and the title of this video. Iran’s unique geography is its greatest strength imho. There are major roads throughout its numerous mountain ranges to satisfy their commercial or military requirements while making the mainland easily defendable. I’ve traveled and spoken to people of various tribes in the south (even some Arabic speaking ones) as well as the Turks in the north and just about everything in between. They all patriotically associate themselves with Iran unlike what this video implies. That is in spite of people’s general dissatisfaction with the current government.
Strait of Hurmuz is also a huge bargaining chip and deterrent for Iran’s potential enemies since it is totally controlled by Iran not to mention more than 200 hundred miles of additional southern shores outside of it. Iran might seek influence to its west (and east btw... as anyone would) but it has never tried to expand its borders (as this video suggests) judging by its history unless you go back 2000 years or more.
Makes me wonder what this guy was smoking when he came up with all his conclusions!
This is a propaganda channel, like CaspianReport. They all have anti eastern agendas and the way they present their narratives in their videos paints false pictures to further their goals. Pan turks and pan arabs have more resources and access to international media tools, and they are doing everything they can to paint Iran's whole being in a bad light.
I agree with you.
As a Canadian who's visited Iran several times, I completely agree with you!
This whole video is trying to be really edgy and cool, but it's actually very ignorant and arrogant.
This is how a lot of this channels videos come across. Jumping too much to conclusions instead of presenting ideas for you to investigate yourself.
If Irans spawn point sucks why dont they just log out and try again?
they have 5 iq
It's TSL rules.
Combat logging will get you banned
At least they arent getting spawn trapped like babies who get aborted
They already do that, that's why they explode ;)
Is that why Iran is home to one of the world's oldest continuous major civilizations?
YESSSS!🙆♀️🇮🇷❤
Aside from their rich history, many castles and ruins to explore, they also have some of the most beautiful women in any country on earth. Citation: ☝️
@@NordProductions Using a word like "fancy" I doubt you're into women at all
@@ClipCoyote both vulva and vulcano
@@NordProductions Thank you haha
This was such a good video. Thanks RealLifeLore
This is why Persia is a remarkable civilisation - with the culture of Iran influencing the world even today.
Iran:exist
USA:THAT IS AN ACT OF AGGRESSION
I have no sympathy for religious extremist regimes. Countries like Iran, China, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, etc. are the Nazis of our time.
Edit: To clarify, I'm not saying China and North Korea are religious extremists. I'm saying that (religious extremist) Iran is one of the most tyrannical countries of our time, amongst others.
@@sudonim7552 Israel apartheid country, they're closest to Nazis.
@@sudonim7552 China, religious extremist, realy now
also, religiously extremist? ok, Saudi Arabia, you know, the US ally that beheads people for witchcraft? :o)
@@sudonim7552 You do realise that America has a proven track record of creating, funding and arming various terrorist organisations, right? And now you want to talk about "religious extremism"? The only terrorist organisation in this world is the United States of America; the epitome of evil.
Endelig Gnist Couldn’t agree more.
Iran's geography doesn't suck. Most of the points you mentioned such as the Zagros mountains and the Strait of Hormuz are double edged swords; they can be an advantage or a disadvantage depending on the situation. They only major thing that Iran lacks is easily cultivatable agricultural land in the form of river valleys or flood plains.
Yeah, but implying Iran isn't 100% a victim isn't PC my dude.
Borders suck
What ?
24 % Iran's territory is fertile for agricultura and farming 😑
@@buttsufancypantsu1644 wtf? You ask any Iranian if they’re a victim and they’ll say only of their government. Iranians are very proud people especially when it comes to foreign powers and would hate to be victimised, it’s not pc to victimise Iranians because Iranian themselves despise it, no matter their hardships they never give up their pride it’s a feature which united all the different ethnic groups that live in iran
@@mozorellastick2583 The people living in Iran have very little impact on what counts as PC in the developed world. PC culture is strongly determined and influenced by the political left, primarily in the US, EU, along with Britain and her Commonwealth.
I've never said anything about the Iranian people believing they're victims because this isn't at all what this is about - painting Iran as the victim has almost nothing to do with the Iranian people and everything to do with leftist politics in wealthy nations halfway across the globe from them.
Iran: Our Geography sucks
Pakistan: Our neighbours are India, Afghanistan, Iran, China
Pakistan?
Lol. Correct. Good thing we have little bomb with big boom to keep them at arms length
I thought China was friend of Pakistan
@@AshGamer007 Situations change, just like Afghanistan is going to be great friend once the Taliban take over 😊
Leo Lannister untrue, India is also corrupt and trash.
Why does everyone think that Iran's ethnic groups want to rise against Iran? Saddam thought the same thing when he attacked, but the reality is something else. Culturally, Iran has made all people consider themselves Iranians. In general, in Iran, Persian, Arab, Kurdish and Azeri and the rest only refer to the language and place of life. Everyone first considers themselves Iranian and then mentions the language and place of life. All previous empires are considered Iranian and they love it. It is enough to see Iran closely. In terms of nationality, it has a lot of integrity. Although it has its own problems, including the economy!
Love Iran from India.both are oldest civilizations
@@ದುರ್ಯೋಧನ-ಥ3ವ love india from bangladesh / iran lol
@@palmyrene are you Bangladeshi immigrant in Iran?
@@ದುರ್ಯೋಧನ-ಥ3ವ no i mean etchnically
@@palmyrene which is your ethnicity??
this geography actually seems pretty good. they have mountains protecting them from* invasions in the north and west and water protecting from the north south as well.
I rate it 6,5/10
@@Real_Tower_Pizza What?? I think you mean at least 9/10.
the only weakness is the east
Is water protection?
@@ep1x3 When I rate something, I rate the middle-good thing 5/10. So my rarings just seem pessimistic, but 6,5/10 isn't that bad. It is actally in the top 15% or so good geografy countries.
What takes the geografy of this country down is mainly:
- Its neighboors.
- The hard to protect oil fields.
- Since its all mountain, roads can be a problem. Trust a norwegian on this one.
RealLifeLore: Iran has no access to the sea east of Hormuz
Sistan & Balochistan: Am I joke to you?
He meant with oil... Thats why Iran a Muslim country, allowed Hindu Country India to built Chahabahar port
@@arthankitshedddinglights call it secular
@@arthankitshedddinglights Chabahar* Also Bahar means Spring in Persian
@@arjsama3661 we in balochi say chabaaar
Not chabahar 🤣
Cha means well , Baaar is the name of family living their .
@Indian Stars yes but pakistan is not in position to be chinas friend...your gardener isn't your friend you are friendly to your gardener as long as he works well lol
Great video, but Iran's transportation infrastructure is better than you think. There are good highways and trains going through the mountains. And while Iran is made up of different communities, when it comes to a foreign invasion it is one united country.
✊
yes
@@aliibnraymond1361 are you ahwazi?
average speed on 10 km long state of the art highway on mountain and on 10km long decent highway on a flat surface is significantly different.
Do the Assyrians & Armenians know this? Because I know the Afghans in the country washing the clothes and looking after their kids wouldn't object.
RLL: "The Zagros cover most of the border with Iraq.:"
Subtitles: "Zagro covers most of the border with your rock."
😂😂😂
Well this video is going to be blowing up soon
So is Iraq
Here i am ;)
That’s not the only thing that’s going to blow
Literally
*A L L A H U A K B A R!!!!!!!!*
Friend: How did you escaped Iran?
Me: Iran
Literally, its the history of iran name.
@@alyicot chill its just a joke
Vinsmoke Momi eh rawn?
BOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I read the first Iran incorrectly but the second how it's supposed to be.
Next video: WHY EARTH'S GEOGRAPHY SUCK'S
*Main species. The geography is just fine.
Dinosaurs would’ve colonized the solar system millions of years ago
😂😐
Lmfao
“Earth is a rural place, it’s basically a small town in the middle of the Sahara. Earth will have a hard time expanding”
The Outline of Iran looks like a Cat
Actually it's famous for it in Iran 😂
Pakistan is a dinosaur, I love country borders
Now that you've said it I can't unsee it
In about 25 years it'll look like a WHALE.
It looks like a butterfly
Probably the most important geo-strategic state today.
That's why America wants it so badly, it's already surrounded pretty much from all directions
@@t.kahraba763 it's fine, Iran has surrounded America's most beloved state in all directions too 😎
@@m.a4491 based?
706easy what about China or India? Or even Russia?
They're basically just a Russian proxy at this point, so I'd think Russia would be more geo-strategically important. Especially since if they really wanted, they have enough resources to outcompete the west. The resources are just extremely isolated in arctic tundra, but with herculean effort, they really do control more resources than us in the west.
@@BothHands1 doubt it. Russia is far too poor to be really completing with the entire west, its got resource, sure, not nothing irreplaceable. for instance the us is now one of the world's largest oil producers
So basically Iran is a dwarf kingdom? No wonder alot of their ancient kings grow badass beards
You actually received 139 thumbs up for your stupid comment.
A clear indication that the stupids are unlimited. 😆
And they will eventually leave when they wake up the Balrog that sleeps beneath the Zagros Mountains.
@@faridaryan3403 If you don't have a sense of humor it doesn't indicate that someone else is stupid. And my Thumps up was Number 101!
@@faridaryan3403 You trolling?
@@faridaryan3403 if you include your whole family in that broad sweep of accusations , then I'd be really impressed with your assumptions.
Looks like a country that would be incredibly hard to invade.
Zhero Zhero exactly
But easy to isolate...
Not if you have nukes
America: hold my beer
@MIDKNIGHT FENERIR not in modern times (ww2 doesnt count, iran had a very old, untrained and undeveloped military)
Iran changed oil export strategy. Oil terminals are constructed in Chabahar coast at Oman ( Mokran) sea.
Love Iran from india
"Iran's geographic spawn point is nerfed" just straight gamer talk
Funny enough, All the reasons why he mentioned is the reason why Iran's geography is AMAZING. Iran is nearly impossible to invade via land troops because it's fortressed by mountains, and the strait of hormuz can be solved by taking control of both sides and just fighting off a blockade.
@@somethung8188 fighting terms yes but otherwise not so much
Except he uses it wrong
It's actually perfect!
I'd love to have that geography in a strategy game! Just build defenses on the choke points and take your time building your civilization, then when you're ready, unleash it in the enemies!
Iran's geographic limitation would be that its arid landscape means despite the age of its civilisation, it could never develop into the population size of China or India. By contrast, Iran has the perfect defensive geography which makes any invasion of the Persian heartland extremely difficult. Trump just backed out of escalating a conflict with Iran, because it will be much more than 10x worse than Iraq. In thousands of years of history, I can think of Greeks, Arabs and Mongols as the only civilisations ever to successfully conquer the Persian heartland.
He doesn't fear a war with Iran, he achieved his goal without war. No matter how tall the mountains, aircraft and satellites occupy the high ground.
arabs did not conquer but they revolted.....it was a coup d'etat
@@edgarpryor3233 he destroyed american prestige...iran would have never dared to do to america under any other president, what they did under trum. They knew trump is al words and all he cares about is being petted on the head ( good boy, beautiful boy, smart boy...you know bible better than anybody ever....you are the least racist person ever etc etc loool)....if you have a car salesman as you president this is what you get. China is moving fast while putin is the most powerful person in the world, with a country which produces shit.....why? Amercans are tribal idiots...
@@farda8473 Iran would never attack Americans or American interests if Trump wasn't President, unless the President was Obama, or Bush, or Clinton, or Bush, or Reagan....
Well it's estimated that if Mongols didn't invade Iran, the country would have had 10x more population in the current era. Mongols destroyed multiple big Iranian cities, like Neyshaboor, and burned so many of our cultural heritage. The country fell into a very miserable state after that and was plagued with famines for multiple centuries.
Wendover productions isn't gonna like you stepping into his terrain 😠
I think they're friends along with Real Engineering. They probably collaborate and coordinate on many things. And overlap isn't a bad thing.
@@ProfessorTravis it was a pun
Wendover, after making videos on US, Indian, Chinese, Russian, Brazilian, and Greek geography, hasn't touch this subject since. So, I am glad someone picked up the mantle.
He isn't wendover anymore, he is planedover
...Again, LOL.
according to the real life lore- US is the only country whose geography doesn't sucks.
They also appreciated France's geography though
LOL 😂
I mean, he's not wrong. The US' only negatives are natural disasters like hurricanes on the east coast, "Tornado Ally", the huge volcano under Yellow Stone, Earthquakes, and I guess the forest fires on the west coast. The US' geography and location is OP as fuck.
USA has weak countries boundering them and have 2 oceans. They are very lucky
@@zylnexxd842 Mexico and Canada weren't always weak. The US made them weak; nothing wrong with that, but it wasn't always that way. In fact, US managed to defeat them bc it had the best geography.
Canada has little habitable land, compared to its total land area, while Mexico has various mountains which leads to lower agriculture yield and slower population growth.
On the other hand, the geography of the US has no real disadvantages.
Iran invented roads (not paved ones like the Romans invented) and they had the first courier system during the Achaemenid empire which stretch from Greece and Egypt to Northern India. That dynasty was not a despotic state, first empire in History to have freedom of religion.
The other thing is Iran was always bigger than modern day Iran so using its modern size when talking about the past land size doesn’t make sense, since Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Babylon and Kurdistan were always a part of it for long periods of time.
Julio Is not a channel You’re absolutely full of shit lmao. Assyrians invented the first courier system they date back to 4000 bc.
Freedom of religion is a nice thing, but that doesn’t inherently contradict someone having absolute power, which is what a despot is.
Also, you comment on it’s pre-modern size makes no sense. A majority of the video referenced its war with Iraq, oil economy, and routes for expansion in a modern context (while admitting historical expansion in a majority of the places you mentioned). Does that mean that we need to factor in the Roman Empire while talking about modern Italy’s geography and economy? No? Then there’s your answer.
@@Azrael-en8rq He meant postal service
@@scottgrey3337 That dynasty was there and had human rights and freedom of religion when white ppl were just learning how to lit fire.
Amin Mahjoob Alright, so they were being nice with their absolute power?
Also has nothing to do with the context of the video being set in modern time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So just because it can't be invaded.. the geography sucks??!! I am sure Iranians will disagree.
it protects but also cages in the nation.
That's the opposite of the point. Not being easy to invade is a plus, but not having easy access to foreign markets and agricultural lands is a minus
You missed the part about how it's most important region can very much be invaded.
@@mxn1948 we can go wherever we want. we have good relations with our neighbors, just not the south of the country who are supporting the Zionist Devils.
@@sudonim7552 not really anymore. It may have been the case in the 80's when Iran was at its weakest. now there's really nothing you can do short of nukes.
Iran is the Obi Wan Kenobi of the Middle East why's that ? Because they have the High Ground !
BroliYTwins ❤️
aaaaaa no they dont
@Suqmadiq Icewallowcum Technically they do because of the geography of the country being high. But in terms of influence, power, intelligence, passport, army, art, history, industrialization, healthcare, trade, relationships with other nations, colleges, education, sports, renewable energy, land size, people's unity, freedom, and agriculture. They are not even close to being in the high ground in 95% of the mentioned fields. Not even oil.
Iran: It’s over Anakin. I have the high ground ⚔️
😂😂😂
Facts
Lol, very true
Iraqin
As an Iranian i must say that "crossing the zagros mountains " is not as difficult and hard as you've said and shown. Our road system is very good actually. (Relatively speaking)
For war though? Tanks, supply/personal trucks, artillery etc?
@@fouronetwo813 in general, our road system all over the country is very good
@@Amir-ow5qn LoL if he says so than American kids will not click on his videos 😅
Btw love to our Iran who has been our neighbour from ancient times 🇮🇳
It has nothing to do with roads! Mountains are considered natural defences all over the world. No matter how good you think your fuking roads are.
@@prateeksharma6706true he needs those American 3 year old
Well, 15 year old work since they're an idiot at geoghraphy.
I love how the title says Iran’s geography sucks only because it’s hard to invade. Iran is made out of multiple ethnics and that makes its culture pretty rich. Also Iran’s geography is an amazing one in the world because if you travel to iran at one time you can experience all four seasons from north to south.
Keep burning fellas
Irans geography is good because it can protect it from enemies but the bad thing is that its hard to transport stuff across the mountains.
All 6 seasons seasons can be experienced in India at one time from North to South & West to East. F your Iran
@@hello123s but Iran has the benefit of not containing half the world population in it so you can move around a lot more freely on the top of being much cleaner than india. Cry harder
mokhlesim ;-)
generally 42 degrees celsius difference between the coldest and warmest place in iran...which i still find weird loool
Iran has 10% of oil reserves in the world. Ah makes sense why usa and iran always arguing
outlawfly yet its still a shithole.l country
@@kevinhernandez1095 Irans a pretty dope country actually.
@@kevinhernandez1095 as an iranian who used to live there some10 yrs ago i 100% agree the ppl are good but thats just about it if you are not one of the top1% in that country ur fucked
@@kevinhernandez1095 America made Iran a "shit country".
@@endeliggnist5066 Iran is a great country!
Usa is shit!
Damn, those mountains look like they are something out of Lord of the Rings. Absolutely gorgeous!
Today's fact: The Himalayan Honey Bee, the largest of the honey bees, makes a hallucinogenic honey that tribes collect.
Forget LSD, now we’ve got LS-BEE
@@alexandergilles8583 smmoth
And that’s because of the nectar of the high altitude flower called Rhododendron of Nepal.
I don’t bee leaf you
@@alexandergilles8583 that's a good one.
When sea levels rise the mountainous countries will be laughing.
Philippines: time to go to the Chocolate Hills!!!
@kkthxk look up by 2050 sea levels rise by 2-4 meters
@Verry Ganteng
F
you and your great great great grandchildren won't see it.
Me: *laughs in the Himalayas*
6:53 Ahh, so that's why the US is preparing for war with Iran.
Before I even went back to video I thought you might be talking about oil. Check the video: yep, that's the one.
Yeah preety much
Away in my Mind well no the US is already the largest oil producer in the world and is even going to begin exporting it
That’s such a lazy argument. The US and its closest trading partner, Canada, have gigantic amounts of oil and gas, especially now that fracking is permitted (environmental consequences notwithstanding).
The U.S isn’t the only nation that exploited or went to war for flimsy reason for resources. In fact during the Libya revolution, it was France that help enact a no fly zone in Libya interfering and allowed a more pro-western government to take its place.
Its over Saddam, I have the high ground
You underestimate my power: *shoots mountains with ak*
You underestimate my power.
_Gets Gulf War’d twice._
Saudi Arabia: ha ha ha i have the most oil
Iran: Hold my tea
at least, hold my "chai"
The Saudis do have the most oil. (^_^)
The Iranians can't even get the Chinese to commit to oil field development projects due to US sanctions.
A war between the two, the winner gets a whole lot of oil.
TheCrazyShowman Venezuela does actually
@@ramtin89 chaina
@Nick with no last name I know. I just made that statement as the comment had the Saudis and the Iranians comparing oil reserves. The Saudis DO have more oil than the Iranians and Venezuela has more than the Saudis (and everyone else). Shame that Venezuela sucks at being a country such that they can't utilize those fields properly and have to import oil...
Iran, my motherland ,I love you from the bottom of my heart.
Nope fuck this place. I hate it with every fiber of my being.
@@alanlight2715 you're name is Alan, so I assume you're not Iranian, why the hate?
@@glasslakes I am. I intentionally changed my name online because I want to be completely removed from everything that has to do with Islam and Iran. My real name is Ali . A name I have to endure until I can move out and legally change my name.
@@alanlight2715 same here with saudi Arabia and islam .. i just want to go as far as i can be from this shit hole !
@Linus Haber Have you lived here? Yeah the nature and the varied biomes are cool but a lot of people here are really behind the times and their line of thinking is really outdated and outright disgusting, not to mention the politics here are a goddamn mess. We're on the verge of war and inflation has never been worse.
God: Iran needs a buff
God: +10% oil
And +70% Mountains
Did you forget a few important things in this video about Iraq/ Saddam Hussein being part of a proxy war and supported by a superpower? That and the chemical weapons given to saddam to use on Iran may have been a factor in Iran not outright beating Iraq. Iraq later decided Kuwait would be easier and miscalculated on US support.
Hmm, still it's amazing how Cyrus The great conquered Iran/Persia, and didn't rule with an iron fist, but rather being famously the kindest monarch in ancient history
Nice!
King Henry VIII I think it was, was a way nicer king
Cyrus the Great was warrior king and one of the best military commanders in history who conquered 3 of the most powerful empires of is time but also a good person but is war killed many peoples in is time for example in only one battle more than 100,000 got killed that crazy number form more than 2500 years ago
Noob cyrus was an iranian himself and he didint conquer iran :))). What are you talking about. Its like saying biden conquered U.S now :)))))
@@dolme4789 he conquered the Median Empire he was the founder of Achaemenid Empire
Today's fact: Most elephants weigh less than a blue whale’s tongue!
So most elephants are underweight
and a blue whales heart is the size of a car
@@kirby7539 r/wööhs
'most'
Don't fat-shame nelly the belephant.
SciFactsYT already knew that i know most of ur stupid facts so stop thinking ur smart and get better ones u dick
Iran: My geography sucks.
Indonesia: Dude, you've never googled me on Maps, have you?
7:39 (turn on captions) yes, Iran biggest threat
A ROCK
Looks like the algorithms have brought this to me so I can get some info about Iran before deployment for WW3
Yes
Indeed
@@Xiahoud we went from ww3 to wwZ
You are still worried about WW3
dont worry im from the future ww3 never happened
"nerfed" "spawn point" homeboy been gaming
Why did i laugh at this comment so much :D
Buffed too
Best comment
Iran: *tries to expand *
Iraq: we got geography on our side
North: we got geography on our side
Afghanistan: we got geography on our side
Pakistan: we haven't been using condoms
nah! I believe Pakistan 220 million population is too busy competing with India's 1.2 billion population.
@@arsalanhaider8445 Stop it! You guys need condoms lmao.
@@MakeItCount231 your dad needed it as well.
somerandumguy
Pakistan isn't stronger than Iran because of its higher population but because of its nuclear weapons
@@irfanali-zt4dp if we look at their military status. Pakistan is stronger even without nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons act like cherry on the cake that solidifies Pakistani dominance and deters any iranian misadventure. But it is worth mentioning that while iran is busy towards its west (iraq and syria) and south (Arab countries) pakistan is also very busy towards its Eastern border with India which is a hotline and very tense. it is involved in fighting terrorism on its western border with Afghanistan. The Pakistan iran border is less manned and both countries have no interest in creating any tensions along this border.
Zagros Mountain (in Western Iran)
Alborz Mountain (in Northern Iran)
Khuzestan (oil-rich region in West Iran)
6:41 Iran's oil & gas reserves
7:48 Strait of Hormuz
What happened to the invaders?
Iran: "Teh ran away"😎
That's not what the Mongolian empire thought.
Iran away too
Invaders: Iran with the others, it was getting too heated we had to flee!
And here's another westerner not knowing how to pronounce Teheran.
@@DaDARKPass its not teheran, its Tehran, there is no e in it. As an Iranian I found the comment funny and dont criticize some1 if u also say it incorrectly
Sounds like Iran needs a decent high speed rail network.
Yes Jeffery... We need it. It’s a pity...
@@MojtabaEshghie are all the major 8 cities well connected with highway or motorways?
Of course. Please
Germany: Our geography is pretty alright, actually.
No two front war! lol
Thanks man
Yes many hollow places to lit fire ....
@@aminmahjoob6353 was that... a... joke you made?
@@lancetheking7524 u did not get it?
Iran - my geography sucks.
Antarctica- hold my ice cap.
Actually Iran's geography is very VERY good, Hence why they've lasted so long
yeah idk, but somebody attack that plains with a lot of oil and blockades the Hormuz strait, they can wait there until the economy collapse dan destroy the country entirely
@@Hsnshot you are so funny and uneducated!
Then you know very little of Iran
@@longshorts7148 If any country's supplies run out they are screwed. Iran has plenty of mineral resources, plenty of room for producing renewable energy that would last the country to the end of times (and is actually its second source of income, as they directly supply neighboring countries with less favorable geography), access to two different seas and a direct ocean route that the video conveniently disregarded, and plenty of arable land as well, which is actually the second reason why the Khuzestan province is so important to the country, being among its most fertile. All in all, I don't think the video did its research that well.
The only way Iran is screwed is the sanctions, which had to be put on literally _everything_ for it to work, and it seems that even that is no longer a concern with China being ready to fill the gap. All in all, collapsing Iran isn't easy at all, which is why 4 of the greatest empires in the history of the world as well as the Islam of the Golden Ages had Iran as their seat of power. They could blockade 3 entire continents from there.
@Alex Mercer go to Google maps and just check it for yourself. Iran is essentially one mega mountain with a huge plateau
"iran is difficult to invade"
Alexander the great: hold my companion cavalries
When the only two people who've successfully conquered you are Alexander and Kublai Khan, that's a very good track record. Iran (well Persia) has always been a dominant power in the Middle East since the Achaemenid.
No thing is hard to nuke. Even if you built your town on the top of a mountain.
@@jyashin You forgot to add the Rashidun Caliphate.
@@jyashin you forgot the timurids, parthians/parni, seljuks, etc etc.
They may have integrated with the native iranian culture BUT they all were alien to the region at first.
@@kunknown2340 no they migrated to persia. They conquered iran when they were in iran
Iran: my geography sucks.
Andorra: hm.
tongyao zhang you mean the country separating France and Spain
Thethicc hotdog do you know France and Spain still border eachother
The Pagan Owl I didn’t say they didn’t
8:00 you are actually wrong. Xerxes the great (Achaemenid Empire) and his successors had the strongest navy of their time. During Parthian Empire and Sassanid Empire also, we don't know much about them, but we do know that they have actually reached Tanzania! Also during Pahlavi era, Iran's navy was the strongest in the middle east, had exclusive models built for it by USA and GB, and president Carter at one point said that Iran has certain Naval Destroyers that USA didn't have. Shah had a program to expand Iranian navy to the Indian Ocean, but the revolution happened and the program was terminated. Iran's Navy had battles with GB's navy, and won couple of them. Also it participated in the Oman's conflicts with the communists and helped Iman defeat them.
2:55
Iran: It’s over Iraq, I have the high ground
Iraq: You underestimate my power!
Iran: Don’t try it
Iraq: AHHHHHH
Iraq: MY OIL OOGA BOOGA
Iran: MY HIGHGROUND NOW BOY
Iraq:
Iran: That’s right
Also iraq: Persia Persia give me that ZuCC
I'm laughin so harddddd
Iran: how can we prevent U.S. blockade us at the strait of hormoz?
Also Iran: we will block it ourselves so nobody can pass through.
Behrooz KHaleghi Rad tbh it will hurt the world more than Iran, because Iran has sanctions.
@@MarkSmith-vo1vn ye this is true at this point the only nation purchasing Iran oil is china.
I really love Iran's Geography
don't forget the US gave Iraq chemical weapons during the war which Saddam use on Iranians and his own people
Bilal بلال bruh shut the heck up my father died in war because of Saddam’s chemical bombs do you know how many Iranian even nowadays are suffering from what American and Iraqi people did to them, people call Nazi as bad characters but American and english and probably even Iraqi people did worse to us, half of the population of Iran suffered from hunger that caused by english people and American who sold chemical weapons to Saddam which left millions of Iranian who still suffer from these injuries.
7:55: “Persian empires have always been strong land powers ...”
Shows video of Ancient Greek pikemen
Cyrus the great: Am I a joke to you?
Well during Alexander conquest, the Persian also hired thousands Greek Hoplite mercenaries. After Alexander died, many nations (Persian, Bachtrian, Egyptian, even Roman) copied the Macedonian Phalanxs. So greek style units were actually very common at that time.
@@anggi8699 with all respect my friend , these are fiction made at modern days to make Alexander's moves acceptable for west culture. You know that Iranians (cyrus the great) said that everyone is free to choose being a part of empire or not. What about Alexander ? He was a brutal killer without any human like action.
@@Mishe03 Meh.... people will use whatever works. The greek mercenaries were employed by the Persian because the greeks knows how to fight other greeks. Meanwhile, Alexander used more horse achers and Persian light infantries in Bachtria, Sogdia and Indus river because he faced a more mobile war.
During war people are more pragmatic. The vikings were employed by the Christian Byzantium. The Indian elephant riders, the Numidian horsemen, and the Iberian Gallic warriors were employed by Hanibal. The German tribes were employed by the roman as Auxillary units. Just because one type of units were originated in particular nation or region does not mean they cannot be deployed somewhere else.
I'm sorry if I offended you in anyway. I studied Alexander and I know that he was a megalomaniac, he showed this trait when he massacred the citizen of Thebes. Those massacre made him so unpopular among greek citizens. He also has many cases of narcisistic and delusional of grandeur which could only be tolerated by the troops because he keep winning battles. I believe the whole reason why Alexander invaded Persia was because he want to save his own head. He need money to bribe the Macedonian nobles so he plundered the Persian empire. He used Persian money to buy loyalty from Macedonian nobels and in return the Nobles would not try to kill him.
@@anggi8699 the only reason that Iran was defeated against Alexander was because of corruption among the religious figureheads who weakened Iran by creating rifts and internal conflicts that destroyed the unity among the Persian Forces. you don't need horse archers when you have the higher ground. but if you have divided forces who fight among themselves, it basically would become impossible to defend yourself against a foreign aggressor. you can look up what I just said about Persian history on that time.
@@khiareozmakhiar3722 sure sure. Alexander whiped the floor with persia get over it.
The Iranians aren’t lucky cause they have Saudi Arabia as a neighbor.
What’s SaudiArabia have to do with all of that?... you’re just trolling
@@matthew8149 Rack that brain of yours, and guess
Philip Molina and Israel aka America’s daddy
@@matthew8149 go watch brain4breakfast's (r.i.p.) video about the gulf to understand what's this fella is taking about
@Figlio Segreto Di Stalin eyy lmao
It seems more like Iran's geogrophy sucks for its enemies lol
"There's always been one problem that severely limits civilization in Iran"
*Cyrus the Great laughs in of the greatest empires to have ever existed*
Nithin Srivatsa yes but it could have been even greater than that by ten times if Iran had the space
@@32gigs96 whatifism
Yeah dude I mean he conquered most of the known world within 30 years. From poor nobel, to tribal chieftain, to King of the World
Too bad his progeny pissed it all away. Besides that was thousands of years ago
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3:00, historical inaccuracy check.
The Iraqis barely gained territory in Khuzestan and never even reached the Zagros itself.
Yes they did.
The Iran Iraq war frontlines where very close to the border
@@sheedmm2174 Are you some kind of roasted Iraqi? The Iraqi forces barely reached outskirts of Ahvaz, which is about 80 km away from the border, and Ahvaz itself is more than a hundred km away from foothills of Zagros mountains. so how they did reach Zagros mountains? pls explain.
@@kotsaris87 iran iraq war was similar to ww1
The fronline were too close to each other
Iran: my geography sucks
Russia: hold my plains straight to Moscow territory
But very deep strategic depth
DarthGaming Plains with the food stores scorched, virtually no population and a devastating winter along with a massive territory that would have to be conquered for someone to claim victory.
Really good work. Iran just finished a major oil terminal on the sea of oman, over a hundred miles away from Hormuz, in order to mitigate their vulnerability to possible strikes on Kharg Island, their major oil export port, incase of a war with America.
Iran: Its over iraq, i have the high ground
Well they are killing iraq because they want their oil and you probably know how much oil Iraq has
@@teddy_x2099 well with our goverment nothing is obvious,we just want them outta here that's for sure
@@teddy_x2099 well iraq attack iran not iran..
Modward Animatinos iraq did nothing to Iran they are just trying to take oil from Iraq and sorry i didn't mean to start an argument
XxNOORxX Iraq did nothing to Iran??? Who declared the 8 years of war asshole?
USA: Heavy Breathing....
Not really these days due to shale oil fields. The Chinese??? Oh yes. Their own oil consumption is going through the roof, will dwarf US consumption, and have very little reserves of their own. Beijing is going to claim that Chinese fisherman fished close to Iranian waters in the old dynasties, and will then proceed to take Iran.
What are you trying to insinuate, huh? HUH?!
@@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_ are you on Hashish?
khiareozma khiar No. It was sarcasm.
@@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_ Ok den u are HASHIS >D
i am glad he pronounced the country as "yee" + "run", instead of the cringe worthy " i " + "ran".
its not "yee-ran" tho its "E-ran"
@@8000main it's E_run and we don't care what the uniranian how pronounce it.
@@ariaparsi4792 iraniam dash :\\\\
@@8000main عزیز دلی داداش❤️🌹 ببخشید من فکر کردم خارجکی پس بگو عشقی
It’s not Yeee run either lol
Iran topography is one of the best in the middle east… Iran and Turkey
Lets hope Iran and Turkey will once again get along with Israel. Not a fan of what Israel does, but it would be nice if we could all get along.
@@MrZZooh The middle-east could easily be the world's strongest economic zone. Connecting africa, asia and europe it could become very dominant very quickly.
Let's hope stability and unity can be achieved. If Europe could do it after two world wars and a long cold war, I think ME can do it too.
@@MrZZooh you see islam says deffend and help your brother against the harm of others
So yea we cant get along with israel because of what they did and what they are doing to our beothers and sisters in palestine.
You wanna say israel did nothing or they are innocent?
You can read about dir o yasin village
One of many examples
Turkey is a mediterranean country not middle east