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Persia was friendly to the west then until the Shah was toppled and it became Iran.

Earlier, in 1908.

It goes back a lot further than that. 1914 when the Ottoman Empire was being divided up. Osama Bin Laden referred to the 1914 carve up in 2001 when he claimed responsibility for 9/11. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/30/middle-east_0_n_5543710.html