Why America and Iran hate each other
ABCAmerica and Iran have despised each other for decades. "North-west Iran was very much the line drawn on the mountains between the West and the East, between the United States and Soviet Union," explains Anoush Ehteshami, professor of international relations at Durham University. Under a US "containment strategy", he says, the Shah of Iran was entrusted to keep that barrier, and also "make sure that oil continues to flow". "By the late 1960s, early 1970s, the United States decides effectively, because it's bogged down in the war in Vietnam, that it really can't maintain its interests around the globe," Mr Khalil says. "And if this was President Obama's biggest achievement internationally, then Trump was bound to go after it and to dismantle it," Professor Ehteshami says.
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