The Collapse Of The United States

Furthermore, the Shah purchased billions of dollars worth of weapons of security from the US. In 1979 the realm was overthrown by extreme Islam’s that were followers of Ayatollah Khomeini. The intention of the Iranian students was to display their displeasure against the Shah. Their demand was the return of the Shah for a trial followed by his death. In addition, they asked that the US stay out of their country’s affairs. Carter’s approach required the safeguarding of American hostages but also guaranteed an alliance with Iran. Carter’s tactics on the situation had devastating effects on his run for re-election (Hamilton, 1982).

On David Farber 's book Taken Hostage, Farber informs us about the Iran Hostage Crisis and America 's First Encounter with Radical Islam. This book tells us how the United States and Iran got into conflict, leading to the Iranians holding American Embassy members hostage as revenge for them feeling betrayed by the United States. It also informs us about other events that occurred in a decade that caused the United States many problems. Farber talked about all the events that lead to the Iranian Hostage Crisis. November 4, 1979, seizure of the United States embassy in Tehran and the hostage of four hundred and forty four days following, were the first steps leading up to the perpetual War on Terror. Farber believes the failure from American policymakers and more specifically from President Carter, to identify the severity of the crisis made for the prolonged crisis. The sheer ineptitude of Carter administration was the cost of the US to lose it’s way economically, culturally, politically and even military. Carter struggled to respond to the impulses of Islamic fundamentalism within the prevailing Cold War paradigm. They saw the real battle as against secular modernism and they recognized that the US was the major force spreading this cultural and political belief throughout the world. The media misrepresentations of the struggle and mass media manipulation of Americans played on the peoples emotions. Although Carter was popular at the beginning of his presidency, this began

The United States history during 1977 to 1989 went through two presidencies and whirlwind of events happened. When President Jimmy Carter became president he wanted to lower the inflation rates to make life easier for the people of the United States. While that was his goal it got completely derailed. Near the end of Jimmy Carters presidency, a group of Iranian students took over the U.S Embassy in Tehran and took people hostage. Over the course of the 444 days the hostages where held captive while the people of the United States voted for a new president to help lead them into a new direction. The people voted for Ronald Reagan. While he was president things didn’t go as he planned as well. The issues with Iran did not calm down and escalated to something bigger. After the Iran hostage crisis, the US had another issues with Iran and it was the Iran- Contra affair. During this essay I will be talking about the book called “Taken Hostage” by David Farber and the information in the book. The book is about the time frame of Jimmy Carter’s presidency and the issues with Iran and the hostage crisis. The second half of my essay is towards President Ronald Reagan’s and the issues about the Iran- Contra affair and the lasting issues between Iran and the United states.

The Iranian hostage crisis was one of the most dramatic events in a series of problems that took place during President Jimmy Carter’s term. The crisis, beginning in November of 1979, received the most coverage of any major event since World War II. It was one of many problems faced in light of the United State’s complex relationship with Iran. The effects on both the US and Iran were astronomical, especially politically as well as economically and socially. It took a heavy toll on American relations with the Middle East and changed the way we engage in foreign affairs. In light of this crisis, Iran started an international war that we are still fighting thirty-two years later.

President George W. Bush’s “axis of evil” speech undermined support of Iranians who argued for better relations with the United States. When Bush made that speech in 2002, Mohammad Khatami, a reformer, was the president of Iran (Freedman 473). The United States sanctions against Iran have helped to further the Abadgaran regime’s agenda by giving justification to a group that is desperate for it; the sanctions have allowed them to consolidate their power and further oppress Iranians who go against the government’s policies. Iran’s current state is best described in Lawrence Freeman’s A Choice of Enemies:

The 1970s is described as the Era of Limits, a decade when Americans were criticized for being self-absorbed. However, in 1979, American anxiety and the public concern towards the impact of the rise of radical Islam tends to contradict the claim of the widespread selfishness amongst the American people. The Iranian hostage crisis, which lasted for four hundred and forty days, from 1979 to 1981, was a defining moment in the history of United States and Iran’s relations. David Farber, in his book, Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America 's First Encounter with Radical Islam, narrates a detailed account of this relations in five insightful chapters. He concentrates on the emergence of radical Islamic fundamentalism led by Ayatollah

The focus of this investigation is on the United States’ influence on the National Revolution of Iran of 1978-1979. Topics investigated include the sociocultural and political differences between the two countries which

The Middle East was one of the main areas of the world which the US aimed to prevent a Communist reign. After Iran broke off from Great Britain in 1952, America disband aid to the Iranian economy and “left a running wound that bled for twenty-five years and contaminated relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran” (Richman, Sheldon L. 5). It wasn’t until the mid 1970’s that the US began a CIA operation to create chaos in Iran to overthrow and capture Mossadegh, a man with Communist ideals, while simultaneously reinstating the previous Shah, therefore providing oil to America and Britain. America continued to aid the Shah and his corrupt government for the following years, creating a difficult environment for the people of Iran. This corruption and negative impacts on Iranian civilians lead to an internal revolution in the late 1979 that ended with the death of the Shah. Iranians then held American hostages at the US Embassy in Iran, which is the inspiration for the movie Argo (Richman, Sheldon L.

The post-coup era was a flourishing time for American-Iranian relations. It was not that the people of Iran were particularly fond of the US, but rather the Shah’s relationship with the US. His power was essentially granted to him by both the US and Britain, and as a result he was to do as they instructed, causing him to become the “American puppet.” The US propelled him into becoming a “domineering leader over the Iranian government and masses,” which was the opposite of Mossadegh. Such a regime warrants itself to the hatred garnered by people. The greatness of these times defined the reasoning behind the enormous amounts of animosity that was generated when the relations began to fray.

From the beginning of Iran’s nuclear program, the United States has supported Iran’s proliferation;only recently, has that changed. Sam Roe for the Chicago Tribune reports that Iran’s nuclear program was launched in the 1950s, with bountiful help from the United States. Yet, US and Western participation in the Iranian Nuclear program quickly halted after the 1979 Iranian Revolution that toppled the Shah of Iran (“An Atomic Threat Made in America” Chicago Tribune). The change in regimes has not only ended US support for Iranian

What if I told you that Iran was once an ally of the United States? That there was a moment in time where there was peace and much cooperation among the Iranians and Americans? Today I am here to tell you that despite our current and recent hostile relationship with the country of Iran it was not always that way. I will take you through the origins of this relationship between these two countries throughout the Cold War all the way up until now. I will expand upon the key people that were involved and what their roles were well as the conflicts that arose between these two countries that brought much controversy both to Iran and the United States.

First, I would like to give an overall background of the country Iran. Iran is officially known as the Islamic Republic of Iran, the name change was due to its revolution from 1978 to 1979 when the ruling monarchy was overthrown by Shitte Mulims. Iran was also known as Persia until 1935 until Nazi Germany influenced the Iranian government to change its name to Iran. Following the revolution, Iran adopted its current theocratic government and first Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who was chosen by a 86-member body of clerics know as the Assembly of Experts who are responsible for carefully selecting and monitoring the Supreme Leader. Ruhollah Khomeini was succeeded by current Supreme Leader, Ali Hosseini Khamenei. The relationship between the United States and Iran became tense when a group of Iranians held hostage U.S. personnel in Tehran’s U.S. Embassy, the country’s capital, for over a year between 1979 and 1981. Iran would fight Iraq between 1980 and 1988 in what became known as the Iran-Iraq war. This war would expand out to the Persian Gulf where the U.S.’s and Iran’s military would battle each other in what turned into The Gulf War which took place from 1990 to 1991. Under U.S. eyes, Iran has become a supporter of terrorism due to its involvement with it and because of its current nuclear program. Iran recently replaced its president due to Ahmadi-Nejad’s winning streak for the presidential election. The current president is Dr. Hasan Fereidun Ruhani who

This report explains the US-Iran relationships, how they changed over the period of time and what the main reasons for that change were. I tried to analyze these reasons according to the International Relations theories as well as my own opinion. The report includes the information mainly from 1940 to date.

The research continues to broadly discuss Iran’s Foreign policy through the following heading which is Iran’s foreign policy principles, Iran’s first revolution, the second revolution, approaches of the Islamic Revolution, Iran’s foreign policy in the light of the Arab revolts and lastly Iran’s foreign policy towards United States. It concludes that despite the fact that Iran has been playing a major role, it has only accomplished mixed results at best. The following two keys have been limiting Iran’s foreign policy which is because of its contradictory strategies that substantially contributed. Firstly Iraq’s bitterness towards Tehran’s interference and

En 1970, le gouvernement de Muhammad Reza Shah, le chef d’état autocrate de l’Iran ratifia le traité de non-prolifération nucléaire en insistant sur l’importance de son propre développement d’un programme nucléaire dans un cadre purement pacifique pour l’Iran. Depuis ce temps, l’histoire a modifié grandement cet état central du bassin arabe. En effet, en 1979, la révolution islamiste atteint son paroxysme avec le début de l’exil de Muhammad Reza Shah, et le retour d’exil de l’ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeiny. Ce dernier voyait l’Iran comme la mainmise de l’occident dans les affaires de la région du Moyen-Orient et conséquemment la raison de la perte de l’identité islamique de l’Iran et de sa population. Le but de la révolution islamique de