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Iran never seems to have forgotten the fact that the United States, along with UK, was part of the Western conspiracy to keep it as a servile state. The role of those countries in the nefarious CIA-sponsored coup of 1953 against the democratically elected government of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddeq made an indelible imprint on the collective memories of Iran’s post-revolutionary ruling elites. The second most hateful reality in the calculation of the Iranian rulers was the blind support of the United States of the tyrannical rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. He was not only brought back to the throne after that coup, but was also showered with military wherewithal—for which he paid in top dollars—only to serve the Anglo-American hegemony in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East at large. The Islamic Revolution of 1979 damaged (though did not end) that hegemony.
The United States never accepted the legitimacy of the Iranian revolution of 1979 and took several measures to bring about its end, including by resolutely providing assistance in building Saddam Hussein’s chemical arsenal, which he brutishly used against Iran during the Iran-Iraq War that lasted from 1980 through 1988. >>
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 8:41 PM
To: Ehsan M. Ahrari
Subject: Could Iran and the US Overcome Their Mutual Animosity to Eradicate Daesh?
Here is an essay that sat on my desk for several weeks because I was scurrying around to finish revising my book. More on my book later.
“Could Iran and the US Overcome Their Mutual Animosity to Eradicate Daesh?,”
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/could-iran-and-the-us-overcome-their-mutual-animosity-to-eradicate-daesh
Ehsan M. Ahrari, Ph.D.
Adjunct Research Professor,
Strategic Studies Institute, Army
War College, Carlisle, PA
& CEO, Strategic Paradigms
Alexandria, Virginia (USA)
703-960-7861
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/
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