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All of the following countries were already independent states directly after the fall of the Ottoman Empire except __________.
A.
Iran
B.
Yemen
C.
present-day Jordan
D.
present-day Saudi Arabia

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C. present-day Jordan

After the Ottoman collapse (around 1918), Iran and northern Yemen were independent, and parts of the Arabian Peninsula (e.g., Hejaz, Nejd) were ruled by local dynasties. Transjordan, however, came under British mandate control and did not gain full independence as the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan (later Jordan) until 1946.