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Originally Posted by Catfish
Shortly before the Shah "parted" ahem, Persia/Iran had been the 3rd biggest military power in the world,
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Where you got that from...? Before the war 91, the American propaganda machine claimed that it had the 4th biggest, but that held no ground when the claim was closer exmained in media, so they had to reduce the power estimations step by step before hostilities broke out. In the end they rated it as the 8th or 9th strongest military in the world.
Mind you, there were USA, USSR, China, India, and if not by number size than by potency you also have to mention Israel, Britain, France, maybe Brazil.
3rd place behind Russia and America sounds like a hopeless claim to me.