Comment at Tigerhawk's Tanker Wars Post

When you talk about dissatisfaction in Iran, don't limit yourself to Persians, who are only around 50% of the population. The mullahs already face a significant rebellion in Kurdish Iran (10% of Iran's population) and are shelling Kurdish Iraq over the border to try to settle the Pesh Merga.

The most significant minority population in Iran, though, is not the rebellious Kurds. Unlike their brothers in Iraq, they're nowhere near oil. The Ahwazi Arabs in Khuzistan (5% of Iran's population), though, are a majority of that province's population, and that's where all Iran's oil comes from. Split off the Ahwazi Arabs and suddenly all Iran's oil wealth disappears.

Mr. Dunn's article shows us how easy that would be. In fact, it looks so easy that we ought to defund the Wahabbis over in Saudi Arabia at the same time. The Shiite Arabs in the eastern provinces, where all the Saudi oil is, have been oppressed by Sunnis long enough. It's time the Shiite Arabs around the Gulf came together in one nation, with help from the Anglosphere (US, UK, Canada, Australia, India), Japan, and the Shiite majority in Iraq.

The Persians ought to do well enough without the oil, once the overthrow the mullahs and start putting their educations to work.

Big hat-tip to Tigerhawk for the Dunn article link