basra

The foremost book in that regard is authored by an anonymous group from Basra (Iraq) called the Ikhwan-al-Safa [0].

Modern research suggests that ancient likes like Ur were likely on the coastline while modern Basra would have been totally submerged.

If Iran invaded Basra (equivalent of taking Crima) then sanction would make sense.

It was written in Uruk, about halfway between Baghdad and Basra in modern-day Iraq, in the 31st century BC - five thousand years ago.

Which borders Basra and is controlled with an iron fist?

Choosing a job with an oil company in Basra implies a much greater acceptance of the risks and ethical implications of being there than simply not choosing to overthrow the government.

- When the CoI would try to send inspectors, the inspectors receive messages warning them if they enter the port of Basra they would be beheaded.

No one has done it on a large scale against a powerful adversary on their home turf in 60+ years (I don't include the US into Kuwait or Basra etc).

They have to thank Farouk al-Kasim for that, an Iraqi geologist from Basra who worked at the Iraqi Petroleum Company and moved to Norway, wrote a white paper selling the idea of the state participation in exploiting oil in Norway and the rest is history.

Some, like the Basra reed warbler, survived the draining of its habitat against the odds, breeding in pockets of remaining reedbed before returning, Phoenix-like, after the re-flooding.

Right now it's Ukraine, let's say next is Iran acquiring nuclear weapons over the next 20 years and moving towards Basra in Iraq + Kuwait for their oil fields, in this scenario they are a nuclear power, arming themselves for 20 years (and they already have ballistic missiles), to avoid a nuclear escalation between Iran and USA + Israel a negotiated peace happens.

Perhaps, but the existence of regional rail transit on the Istanbul-to-Basra scale is only weakly connected to "car dependence in cities".

Iraq is pretty flat on the routes between the US-allied countries and the major strongholds (Basra, Baghdad).

One desert night on a Marine base outside Basra, I chatted with an Egyptian interpreter hired by the US military.

Even though the attack itself was in Basra, Iraq, the intention seems to be to terrify any companies thinking of sailing through the Persian Gulf.