Since the discovery of oil in the Middle East and the creation of Zionism which led to the creation of the State of Israel on stolen Palestinian land, there has been constant turmoil in the Middle East. With the discovery of oil in the Middle East, western powers, Britain, France and the U.S. & others have colonized and exploited the oil producing countries in the Middle East. In order for the colonizing countries to maintain their control and exploitation of these oil producing countries in the Middle East they have tried to keep leaders and governments in that would allow them to maintain this control by basically bribing them. At times some of these leaders would die or they'd get overthrown by a coup d' etat and the new government demands better agreements on their natural resources. These countries also want to maintain their own banking & money system that's free of usury. This does not always sit well with the powers that be in the West because they want to maintain their domination and control. The Anglo-American banking powers, the very wealthy elite out of London & N.Y.C. have a usurious international banking system that allows them to maintain control & domination over countries through debt.
The U.S. dollar is the world reserve currency. OPEC countries in 1973 imposed an oil embargo on the U.S. because of U.S. Support for Israel. Henry Kissinger negotiated a settlement with the OPEC countries to agree to invoice all oil purchases in U.S. dollars only. Two countries opted out of this agreement, Iraq and Iran. Saddam Hussein began selling his oil in Euro's, which many think is one of the reasons for attacking Iraq, the ginned up threat to Israel being another reason. Iran is basically a repeat of Iraq. Iran has a banking system that is not under control of the usurious international bankers and they will sell their natural resources in exchange for a basket of currencies. Iran's doesn't have much of a refining capacity for their oil. They have to have their oil refined in other countries then shipped back in. Iran's economic strategy is to make nuclear power the primary energy source for their power grids and to sell most of what they produce out of the ground to foreign countries.
The people of the Middle East, the Muslims/Arabs, are tired of being invaded & bombed (drone strikes now), watching their loved ones killed and their land and resources being exploited by Western imperialist powers. Since the discovery of oil & natural gas this is what's happened to their land and people. It's the armies of the U.S., Britain & France that have been attacking...invading these oil & natural gas producing countries under the guise of bringing them freedom & democracy & the responsibility to protect ( the R2P ), which is all a crock. Naturally the Muslim/Arabs view us as a threat.
The culminating ire of the indigenous people of the Middle East against the Western powers for the unjustified invasions of their country's, killing of their loved ones and the exploitation of their land & resources manifests itself in street protests and violence which is plastered all over the controlled corporate media which portrays the outrage of the people as a people just being irrationally over-sensitive about their religion conveniently leaving out the history of invasions, killing of their loved ones in unjustified wars of conquest, and the exploitation of their natural resources.
Tensions are high may cooler heads prevail.