Quote Originally Posted by Dream of the iris
To JakeMartinez:

Not to offend but I kind of think your wrong about us placing the Shah in power. It was in the 1950's when Britain decided to oust the democratically elected shah out of power with the help of the U.S due to the attempts at nationalizing its oil. Though he modernized Iran he was terrible to his people and in the 1970's there was a revolution which ousted him out of power. This is when Iran became a republic and its been that way up until today. This is also why we are hostile towards Iran. They want nuclear technology which could be used for Weapons technology or for energy but we (the common people) really don't know at this point. I have a hunch the U.S is using yet another scare tactic to get us on board with attacking Iran.
PRIME MINISTER Mosaddeq was not that bad at all, and he was highly popular for the economic progress made nationalizing the oil. It's a fact that Britain and the United States did intrigue to bring him down, and that they then installed a pro-Western dictator who was very unpopular...this led to the 1979 radical fundamentalist revolution: we can think economic imperialism and the greed and Machiavellianism inherent in it for that one.

And personally, the idea of Iran having nukes doesn't scare me any more than the idea of the United States having nukes....of the two nations, I believe the United States has a much longer record for aggression, and of course, Christianity and the demands of Christian right lobbyists play a far-too-significant role in government. The only difference, of course, is that Iran is much more in the camp of the have-nots, and doesn't have nearly so large a monopoly on shaping the world status quo. And don't forget, they're very close to the dangerous tyranny called Israel, where a large population of Muslims live in apartheid. Considering they're located in very close proximity to a HEAVILY-armed nation with a long and ugly track record concerning brutalization of the Islamic peoples, maybe being armed isn't such an unreasonable request. You can draw many parallels between Iran and South Korea.