A BREAKDOWN OF THE IRAN Vs US CONFLICTS AND WHAT REALLY HAPPENED:

A BREAKDOWN OF THE IRAN Vs US CONFLICTS AND WHAT REALLY HAPPENED:

A BREAKDOWN OF THE IRAN Vs US CONFLICTS AND WHAT REALLY HAPPENED:

1. Iran in the early 1950s was a constitutional monarchy which mixed Democracy and Monarchy and had a balance.

They had an elected parliament (Majles), political parties, and a prime minister chosen through parliamentary politics until the United States and Britain intervened.

In 1951, Mohammad Mosaddegh became Prime Minister. He was widely popular and moved to nationalise Iran’s oil industry, which had been controlled by the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.

In 1953, the CIA and Britain’s MI6 orchestrated the 1953 Iranian coup d’état, also known as Operation Ajax.

The coup removed Mosaddegh from power
Strengthened Mohammad Reza Pahlavi who reversed oil nationalisation.

The Shah’s Rule from 1953–1979 after the coup, the Shah gradually consolidated power.

Political opposition was suppressed
Secret police (United States-funded SAVAK) were empowered, elections became controlled, and Iran rapidly became authoritarian.

In 1979, mass protests led to the fall of the Shah due to excessive oppression. The revolution brought Ruhollah Khomeini to power and established the Islamic Republic.

The new system replaced monarchy with clerical rule under the concept of Velayat-e Faqih (Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist).

2. After the Islamic Revolution, the US admitted the exiled Shah for medical treatment, which Iranians saw as protecting a tyrant. This directly triggered the US embassy hostage crisis (Iranian response), after which the US severed ties, froze Iranian assets, and imposed initial sanctions marking the start of long-term economic isolation.
3. From 1980–1988 The US provided Saddam Hussein with intelligence, weapons, economic aid, and even overlooked his use of chemical weapons against Iranian troops and civilians (killing hundreds of thousands of Iranians). This was a deliberate proxy effort to weaken post-revolutionary Iran.
4. In 1988 a US warship shot down a civilian Iranian passenger plane over Iranian airspace, killing all 290 people aboard including 66 children.

The US called it a “mistake,” but awarded the commander a medal.

So when unlearned people gaslight you and present whatever the United States is doing in Iran as a gesture of goodwill to its people, this is the sequence of events that led Iran to evolve into a centralised government and has to be militarily strong for its own security.

And to protect itself against Western aggression.