65% of world's natural energy resources. That's logical: here human culture started; lots of compressed 'waste'.
After WWI Great Britain and Tsarist Russia stole from the Persian Empire: Bahrain, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, ...
After WWI Great Britain and Tsarist Russia stole from the Ottoman Empire: Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, ..
This robbery was called 'The Great Game'. A quiz question: where is Israel?