The capture of Khuzestan by the Kingdom of the Arabs was met with great support from the natives and it was me with even more when the region was formally annexed by the Kingdom of the Arabs as the State of Khuzestan. The differing stances on how maps showed the how the nation of the cartographer stood on the issue with the United Empire acknowledging the annexation in their formal maps while the Chinese left it blank. With the loss of Khuzestan, the Kingdom of the Arabs sent out an offer requesting a ceasefire and later treaty which was promptly denied by the Iranian National Republic for a simple reason if the war failed they would collapse to the ground. The Kingdom of the Arabs did not mind and continued on with their offensive towards central Persia. Then Operation Cyrus came along. The first major Iranian offensive aimed to retake per-war Iranian land it was moderately successful pushing the front back to Khuzestan but then it stalled as the fruits of the Arabian industrialization program began to flood the front. But it was not only on the land that the Arabs had the upper hand due to their greater industrial capacity for both on the high seas and in the skies they reigned supreme. While their Interstellar Warships were on a mission when Operation Cyrus ended their air force, was in the depths of the Arabian Desert and it was about to be unleashed.
The first great raid was launched on the 2nd of September and it was absolutely devasting to both the Iranian war effort and the Iranian People. Consisting of three massive bombing raids Operation Heresy was the second largest bombing run in history second only to the hell unleashed onto the La Paz Pact at the end of the South American Inferno by the west. Anyway, the raids were divided into three major raids and several smaller raids. The largest was aimed at Tehran with the second largest aimed for Pars and the third largest aimed for the city of Tabriz the other small raids aimed for either oil production centres or other cities. When the first wave of bombers reached their targets at exactly midnight they gave no warning and unleashed their payload. They had purchased some of the most powerful bombs on the planet and then as one Aussie journalist put it 'laced it with more Naquadah then great whites have teeth'. The comparison is apt as many of the bombs had several layers of explosives all of which were laced with Naquadah. Thus, when the bombs landed they were devastating and did massive amounts of damage. The devastation was unimaginable in Tehran the centre of the was flattened and the people living there were in some cases atomized from the wrath of the bombs. This scene was repeated across the country in lowering levels of brutality while Mohammad Mosaddegh was not in Tehran at the time he would tour the bomb sites and from the ruins of the Royal Palace gave a speech denouncing the Arabs as a and I quote 'mongrel race that never has and never will create anything beyond war and bloodshed'. That is the tamest attack he made during the speech and by the end he outright ordered that it was the duty of every true Iranian to fight back against the Arab invaders until none was left alive. Historians have debated upon whether or not he supported what happened next but no matter what he meant crystal night still happened. Across Iran Arabs were dragged out into the street and hacked to death with broken glass by the enraged Iranian citizenry. Every single Prisoner of War the Iranian's had in their prisons were dragged out behind the jail and shot. Needles to say this was a horrible action war crimes do not mean war crimes in return. The Persian Collapse has that name for a reason for it brought about the collapse of morals in the Middle East.
-Extract from a speech on the Persian Collapse given by Sid Finch.
The Battle of Buenos Aires was the last chance for the Argentine People's Republic to re-establish a stable front against the La Paz Pact what a pity they failed so dramatically. With the collapse of their front the government had begun to evacuate the last loyalists and every child they could to the holdouts that they had built across the country in preparation for this day. Their focus on evacuating children while noble shot them in the foot because their government was trapped in Buenos Aires while all of the children managed to escape. Of course, the government did not think it was that bad with President Victorio Codovilla saw it as an honour to die for the youth of the nation. The final offensive on the city was met with strong resistance as the last Argentine forces fought to the death to keep the revolution alive. Street after street became a battle ground where bashing your enemy to death with a brick was the most efficient method of killing them and it continued on throughout the city with only the international embassies proving safe havens. The British ambassador recounted that he saw at least three parades by the International Anti-Communist Volunteer Corps with the tortured corpses of major government members at least once a week for the three months that the battle raged for. By the end of October, the Argentines could not hold out in their last few strongholds and were eliminated one by one with Victorio Codovilla being the last Communist soldier to die in the Battle of Buenos Aires being shot three times by a light machine gun before he fell. With his death the La Paz Pact had effectively conquered Argentina and they used the chance well. The Argentine Military Government was formally reinstated as the 'legitimate' government of Argentina and a full member of the La Paz Pact who now turned to the other nations on their hit list.
-Extract from an Infotube video on the South American Inferno.