The recent nuclear warning of US President Donald Trump to Iran has triggered fresh “nuclear threats” between the two countries. Iran reportedly “loaded all launchers” in his underground missile cities and is ready to attack after Trump threatened to bomb the country unless he has reached his nuclear program.
However, this stand-off is not new. This tension has been cooking for decades, with the US and Iran at Loggerheads over his ambition for nuclear fitness.
Here’s all you need to know about the conflict:
1953 – CIA helps overthrow the Iranian government
In 1953, although Iran began to get tired of foreign involvement in their affairs, the US helped eliminate the coup of the overthrow of the elected Prime Minister Iran Mossadegh.
At that time, Mossadegh’s step towards nationalization of the country’s oil fields was considered a serious blow to the US and Britain, because both countries were strongly dependent on the Middle East for their oil needs.
The US then supported the appointment of Iranian ruler Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as Shah of Iran and supported anti -American sentiment in the country.
1957 – Signed Agreement on Nuclear Coorperation
Between the US and Iran is signed an agreement on civic nuclear cooperation. This agreement has become the backbone of the Iranian controversial program and provided the country necessary technologies and resources for nuclear armament.
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In the 1970s of the 20th century, Iran will begin to develop a US support program.
1979 – Iranian Revolution
Millions of Iranians protest against the Shah regime, which are said to be corrupt and illegitimate. Secular protesters oppose his authoritarianism, while Islamic demonstrators are against his modernization agenda.
Finally, Ayatollah Khomeini, an Islamic scholar who was arrested and deported in 1964, returns from exile and becomes the highest leader of Iran after Khomeini fled to the ground.
1979-1981 – Iranian Hostage Crisis
Dozens of American citizens are hostage after Iranian students attack the US embassy in Tehran. They require Shah to be issued to Iran to put before the court for “crimes against the Iranian people”. Shah was in the US at the time for cancer treatment.
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After a long stand-off 444 days Iran releases hostage. But in return, for the fact that state assets did not freeze. Ronald Reagan becomes the US President and diplomatic ties with Iran, which have never been restored since then.
1980 – Iran -iiraq War
The tension between the two countries is getting worse after we supported the Iraq’s invasion of Iran, which continues for eight long years.
1984 – Iran becomes a “terrorism sponsor”
Under Reagan’s leadership, Iran declares “the state sponsor of terrorism”. This designation is still standing.
1986 – Sale of President’s weapons Reagan to Iran
President Reagan hiddenly approves the sale of weapons in Iran despite and embargo on the spot. The media reports said that through this sale Reagan hoped to ensure that the return of the Americans in Lebanon as a hostage to Hezbollah, a terrorist group with narrow ties with Iran. The US still supported Iraq in its invasion of Iran.
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1988 – Iranian plane shot down USA
The Iranian civilian aircraft is shot down by the US, which said it was going through the fighter aircraft in the middle of shooting between American and Iranian ships in the Gulf of Persian. All 290 passengers and crews on board are killed. Iran refuses us and calls it intentional.
2002 – The US claims that Iran is part of the “axis of evil”
President George Bush calls Iran, along with Iraq and North Korea, as part of the “axis of evil”, which in Iran even more stimulated anti -American sentiments. It should be noted that Iran has secretly helped us in his struggle against Taliban as a result of attacks of 11 September.
2003 – US is afraid of Iranian nuclear program
Tehran agrees to suspend the production of enriched uranium and allows stricter inspection of its nuclear places in the middle of growing concerns from the American nuclear program Iran.
However, this is short -term because Iran will restart production, leading to stricter and years of international sanctions against it.
2013 – Six countries sign a nuclear agreement
After years of negotiations with the administration of President Barack Obama, a nuclear agreement is signed, which is signed for the abolition of some sanctions from preventing Tehran’s economy. This agreement slows down the Iranian nuclear program. The agreement is considered to be the main breakthrough in the nuclear conflict in the US-Iran.
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2017 – Iranian “rocket” reaction to Trump
Donald Trump will join the White House office and forbid nationals from seven men of the Muslim majority, including Iran, from entering the US for 90 days. Iran calls a ban as “an apparent insult to the Islamic world”. In response, Iran continues to perform a ballistic missile test. The tension over the Iranian nuclear agreement again increases between the two countries.
2018 – Trump leaves a nuclear agreement
In the shocking turnover of events, we under Trump’s administration will resign from the Iranian nuclear agreement. Trump calls the “unilateral” agreement and announces that it will place new sanctions on Iran.
2019 – Year of Chaos
2019 sees the worst conflict between the US and Iran, as the tension begins to deteriorate. After we say that the Iranian Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, as a foreign terrorist organization, declare us that Iran revolutionary guards, claims that the “state sponsor of terrorism”.
In June, Iran reduces the nuclear agreements after being accused of attacking oil tankers in the Persian Gulf and oil facility in Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, the US also imposed new sanctions, which caused the latter to increase the enrichment of low degree uranium.
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2020 – US kills Soleimani, Iran corresponds to missiles
On a visit to Iraq, he kills an American air strike. In retaliation Iran will fire missiles at Iraqi bases, which a few days later accommodate American troops. Trumps says other sanctions will be stored on Tehran.
2021 – Biden promises to revive a nuclear agreement
US President Joe Biden promises to revive a nuclear agreement with Iran, but will not allow any months of interviews. The agreement remains hanging.
2025 – Iran responds to Trump’s threats
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the US will receive a strong blow on Monday if President Donald Trump’s threat to the bomb if Tehran does not reach a new nuclear agreement with Washington.
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