May 15, 2015
USH- Research paper
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United States Relations with Iran
Many People have no idea of the history between the
United States and Iran. Most people think that the United States and Iran have
never had good relations, and that Iran has been the one in the country’s
relations causing all the issues. This is mostly true, however, the United
States has played a role in molding the country’s relationship into what it is
today. Many past issues and more current issues have developed the relationship
into how it is, starting with the overthrow of Mossadeqin in 1953, to present day
with the United States being pressed with the issue of allowing or not allowing
the Iranian government to have a nuclear program.
In 1953, the United States’ CIA joined with the British
Intelligence Agency to devise a plan to remove Iran’s Prime Minister, Mohammad
Mossadeq. They orchestrated Operation Ajax and after it had been executed, the
Prime Minister was no longer in control of Iran. The reasoning for the removal
of Mohammed Mossadeq was because he had intentions of nationalizing Iran’s oil
industry. This would of course be very costly for the United States and Great
Britain. Whether it was right for the United States to intervene in another
country’s government is debatable, if we had not came into their nation’s
affairs there is a possibility that the relationship would be much better than
it is today. However, if the United States had not taken the Leader out of
power then the costs of the oil would have sky rocketed and caused the U.S.
economy to enter a downward spiral.
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| The Strikers |
The years following Operation Ajax went as the United
States had planned, they would back a new leader to lead the country and
essentially do as the U.S. wished. But in 1979 this period of rest came to an
end. The Iranian population had finally forced the Shah to leave the country.
The people of Iran had been on strike for months opposing the Shah, Mohammed
Reza Pahlevi. Majority of strikers were religiously oppose to him being in
power and many of the people wanted him to be in exile. When he left the
country it was very bad for the United States, this is because they not only
lost their “puppet” but they also did not know who would be the leader to come
into power.
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| Ayatollah Khomeini |
After 444 days the hostages were released after Ronald
Reagan was elected as president. After the Hostage Crisis the U.S. went nearly
a decade without another horrible issue. The quiet time between Iran and the
United States came to an end when the U.S. naval vessel, The USS Vincennes, shot down an Iranian
passenger plane. Not only was it horrible that all the innocent people were
killed, but it was also horrible because Iran did not believe at all that the
act was an accident. The Iranian government and Iranian people both believed
that the naval ship had purposely shot down the passenger plane, even though
the ship claims they warned the plane and thought it was a fighter plane. The
idea that the U.S. shot down a passenger plane on purpose spread like wild
fire. Sparking more opposition to the United States by the people in Iran. By
this point in history, the relationship between the two countries was at a new
level of tension.
In more than half a
century of events the relationship between Iran and the U.S. has been changed
and put under an unbelievable amount of stress and tension. What has been done
by both countries cannot be undone and whether the decisions made were morally
right or wrong are always up for discussion. From the removal of a leader to
the shooting down of a passenger plane, the U.S. has destroyed the chances of
the relationship the two countries could have had.
After the
passenger plane incident there was not much that had happened up until years
closer to the present. In the past decade the Iranian government has been
accused of the development of a nuclear program. The UN and the U.S. have been
unsure of the intentions of the development of a nuclear program, whether it is
strictly for nuclear power and research, or for the development of nuclear
weapons.
I
believe that many of the issues that have risen in the past sixty years have
been preventable. Many things could have been stopped, many tension creating events
could have been avoided, and many lives could have been saved if the Iranian
and United States governments had worked differently when dilemmas arise.
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| This is a picture of the plane that was shot down. |
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| Iran's Nuclear Facility |
Sources:
This
source was incredible. I used this source the most out of all of the sources.
The facts are highly reliable because of the facts being on the BBC website.
This source was also very good at conveying the ideas.
This
source had lots of information on the hostage crisis. I used this source for
all the facts on the hostage crisis. It showed all the ideas very well and it
was easy to read.
This
source was used for the research on the passenger plane being shot down. It was
short but it was easy to read and understand the information.
This
source was used for the Iranian revolution. It was a great source for this
topic and that’s what I used it for.
This
source was used to find facts on the overthrow of the shah in 1953. It was a
blog post but I used it to find information and then check it.
This
source was used to get a broad understanding of the topic.
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