It wasn't always this bad my friends. This relationship with Iran and America. Their roller coaster relationship dates back to the early 1900's and they were once good pals who could count on each other. A lot of shady conducts and bad business throughout the years destroyed the relationship they once had and now we have this, a deep animosity that could turn into war.
This is a brief summary that highlights quickly the important events that lead to today's Iranian and American relationship. First, imagine an Iran quite like England where there was a monarchy and democratic government co existing. Then you have to understand the insecure stability Persia went through by being one of the world's biggest powers and then becoming this pushover geek that all other countries wanted a piece of. They were truly vulnerable and weak when the Islamic era spread like fire. The ideology sounded like a solution so they, like many others, converted; however the government remained intact.
It was only after a problem that began with England that things took a turn for the worse with America and Iran. You see, what happened was that Iran has all this oil that England wanted to cash in on so they go to the shah of the time and propose this stupid deal to establish oil refineries in Iranian land, extract all this oil and market it to the world. The catch was that Iran would get a percentage of the profits. Now, you see where the stupidity lies, right? Why allow someone to make money from your assets and not do it yourself and make more money. It's kind of like the shah allowing England to abuse Iran with him getting a fair cut under the table.
This causes an uneasy feeling to the Iranian people and they demand independence from their oil, so they switch the leaders and make it happen. England was cut off from the deal and forced to go home with no oil. This pissed them off like you can't imagine, so they go and begin this unnecessary fire with Iran by telling America that Iran can't be trusted and how we're all just COMMUNISTS, which is a big fat lie! America listens to England and sends CIA agents to Iran, who somehow help produce a revolution within the people establishing another shah.
This Shah eventually didn't satisfy the people once again causing restlessness and disparity. It's not Iranians being picky but leaders never truly listening to the people's needs and all these powers just taking advantage of their vulnerability. This unsettling Iran eventually lead to the big hostage situation with the American embassy in Tehran, which I mentioned in my firsts blogs. The situation was indeed horrible and not justified at all, but I can understand how the people of that time so that as a wake up call to America to get the fuck out of their business.
America did leave, but the relationship between the two never healed. It was quite evident after that that Iran wanted nothing to do with America and America didn't feel obliged to stay as well. It didn't help the Israel was giving them sass as well, but that's a whole other story. The point is to see Iran and the little guy who always wanted respect and then turned rebel. Now we see a proud, arrogant, stubborn, Iran not willing to back down and unafraid of anything, but there is reason to all this madness and it's never smart to judge without knowing all the facts.
For more details: http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/origins/article.cfm?articleid=56&articlepage=5&altcontent=no
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