Why Are We Involved with Iran? Let's Say Bye Instead of Going To War, Why Not?

 Any room on the Shah's gown for a RedCrosss "I donated' pin?

     

I love history! I also know how boring history can be to most people. So the best doses of history are just those doses or parts in our history that we know what is going on but don't know the beginnings of it. Take BP, the Canadian oil company. The one that used to have commercials about how environmentally conscious they were until the explosion and destruction on the Deep Horizon on the Gulf of Mexico. Speaking of oil and the war we seem to be pushed into by a man in the white house that knows no history and no present policies to keep the world not exploding on itself. 

Khomeini and the Shah. Who would you go with as your leader?

Take 'Iran' Why don't we just leave Iran alone? How did we become involved in this nation of really smart people but crazies religious Mullah's? Have you seen people that put their god before their own children? and the world of everyone around them? Yes, it happens in the US but we have no Mullah's, Reverends, Pastors, and Priests, we have corrupt officials or people we have given the power to make our lives difficult. But why we just don't say F*U Iran! you took our diplomats and held them and probably would have killed them if it was not for the help of others particularly Canada and the CIA. Today their diplomats enjoy all the vegan food we have in NYC and other things I will cover another time. They don't even pay their parking tickets with their diplomat license plates.

I found a fellow who lives in that area and wrote the below text on Quora, which is a site I tend to check as often as I can. His name is Robert L Hill, lives in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. I think you will be reminded about how we got into IRAN or how we got involved up to today. 

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Billions and BILLIONS of dollars of oil revenue at stake.

Iran would like to use that money to develop its population. In fact, they HAD it, in 1953. The world was good. Iran has oil, HUGE potential revenues coming in, and a NEW democratically elected PM. British Petroleum got a cut of the money, so they dredged the harbors, built a few oil terminals.

But BP was greedy. And no US company had a cut, just BP.

So BP went to the Americans and lobbied to have the CIA depose the Iranian PM. This they did, and put in place the Shah of Iran. The Shah reopened all the oil contracts, and WHAT do you know, the Americans and BP were HUGE winners. All the time the Shah was in power, the Americans made out very, very well.

The problem was the Shah, who was a control freak. He had 30,000 of his enemies tortured by the state security services, called Savak. Many of them died. Iran also didn’t have a lot of money - because BP and Shell had to take a huge cut.

So the Iranians went to the only people that the Shah hadn’t killed - the mullahs. The mullahs deposed the Shah and rebelled. They put into power their own, and - just to keep the American fleet off them - took 44 hostages. (You do have to remember that the US did and does have a huge fleet in the region!)

So the Iranians are not exactly stupid, nor anti-American per se. They just want to be left alone, and to export their oil. They have a real rivalry with Saudi Arabia - who is a competing form of Islam.