Okay. I read an article a couple months ago that explained in quite a bit of detail how we helped Great Britain depose the Shah of Iran in the early 50's because he had just come to power and was not going to continue the deal with Great Britain where GB basically called all the shots on who Iran sold it's oil to (GB) and for how much. This was an old deal that had happened around WWI when GB's oil company offered to build the oil wells and the infrastructure to get all that liquid gold out of the Iranians' ground, so long as Iran sold only to them.
New Shah said "no more." GB and US teamed up and managed to get him booted and a much more West-friendly Shah put in the pilot's seat.
The Iranians were pissed. Nationalism would have its way. The extremists got a foothold in the fractured political climate.
My question: Why is it the US that Iran is always hating on when this was 90% the fault of GB? Why isn't it death to England? I don't get it.
Good question. Iran's mullah's have been at odds with Saudi's Imam's since the early 1900's. When the US contracted with Saudi for oil Iran's mullah's were furious and they used their fury to build resentment among their people. That along with Israel being a staunch ally would be my guess. Further complicating matters was Saddam's war with Iran. Iran holds that grudge they won't get over even though he is long gone. They gotten a good foothold in Iraq and that is not a good thing for the people there on a whole. Both countries went into deep debt over their 8 year war.
Read a lil on the history of the shites and sunnis.
