I do not understand how people are so myopic to history.
FACT:
# Iran had a democratic secular government in 1950.
# However this govt was not friendly to a British oil company ( BP ).
# The British requested american help to protect the interest of British multinationals.
# The grandson of Theodore Roosevelt personally helped overthrow this democratically legitimate government.
# The hated shan was put in power whom the iranian people really did not like. The shan went back to trading oil for weapons with the Americans/UK.
# From the perceptive of an iranian it must suck to know that your government was overthrown by some foreign entity just for the sake of a oil company. The iranian/persian who are among the oldest of civilizations ( 5,000 years ).
# Of-course this leads to a revolution and a anti-american ayatollah is put in power.
# Americans are nothing but vindictive when it comes to geo-politics and arm Saddam to his teeth giving him chemical weapons.
# Saddam Invades Iraq just while the Iranian are recovering from a revolution to now have to face against a terrible dictator who wants to invade their country.
# Iran had to indure a 8 year war in the 1980s, a war that took a huge toll. The battles fought looked like something out of WW2.
# Next america invades the country to their left and their right and puts a huge amount of ground troops in the south and allies with all of Iran's neighbour. Most of whom hate the Iranians just because they are not the SAME wahhabi muslims as them.
# Iran ofcourse wants a nuclear weapon to stabilize the huge power imbalance they face. They never interfered or invaded a neighbour for 1000s of years and now suddenly they are treated like the scum of the earth.
# The biggest loser in all of this has been the Iranian and poor sunnis civilians who are having to deal with the blunt of ISIS and the likes.