The Trump Administration is once again creating a hornet's nest in
international diplomacy and insists on flirting with nuclear
conflict.The failed negotiations with North Korea and the resumption of
missile tests in the peninsula have served no purpose because now the
tension is increasing in the Middle East.To get more
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After the U.S. government withdrew in May 2018 from the nuclear
agreement with Iran and re-imposed sanctions on Tehran in November,
presidential advisers have sharpened their diplomatic stance.
Just three months ago, national security adviser John Bolton sent a
threatening message to the leader of the Middle Eastern country,
Ayatollah Khamenei, assuring that he would not have "many anniversaries
to enjoy."
To make matters worse, four tankers were boycotted on Sunday in
front of the United Arab Emirates, and Iran's enemy countries accused
them of provocation.Both Trump and Khamenei have added fuel to the fire,
threatening each other about an "imminent defeat" if the matter comes
to armed conflict.
This week, however, both Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and
representatives of Tehran have lowered their tone by assuring that
neither side is interested in reaching those extremes.
To guard their backs, the Administration ordered a "partial
evacuation" of the staff in the embassy of the neighboring country,
Iraq.Despite the prominence that the Trump government has adopted in the
breakdown of relations with Iran, these have not always been good,
especially since the Second World War.
During the 1940s, Iran was a victim of the invasion of the United
Kingdom and the Soviet Union, who were backed by the United States.
However, the new diplomatic spirit of the world after the bloody
conflict brought both sides to the negotiating table.
In 1953, the CIA backed an operation to overthrow the
democratically-elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in order to
protect the U.S. and Britain's interest in the country's oil—Mossadegh
had nationalized the oil industry and the U.S. wanted to return control
to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. The coup succeeded, and
though the CIA did not admit its involvement until 2013, the Iranian
people widely understood the coup to be an effort orchestrated by the
U.S.
That frustration with the Shah's regime as a Western puppet was part
of what fueled the Iranian Revolution in 1979, which ultimately
submerged the nation under the yoke of a theocratic regime.
On Nov. 4 of that year, the radical group of Muslim Student
Followers of the Imam’s Line responded to President Jimmy Carter's
decision to protect the former Shah (leader) by occupying the U.S.
embassy in Tehran and abducting 52 U.S. diplomats for 444 days.The
Carter administration responded with the so-called Executive Order 12170
and froze up to 12 billion dollars in Iranian assets, some of which
remain suspended today.
Hence the chain of economic sanctions by the United States imposed
mainly in 1995 by President Bill Clinton, and which includes Iranian
purchases of food, spare parts, and medical products, as well as
American purchases of carpets and food.
President George Bush continued these sanctions under the Iran
Sanctions Law (ISA), which was renewed for another ten years in December
2016.
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