You have to understand that the situation originated in 1953, when the elected prime minister of Iran was removed from office by the CIA after an attempt to nat

You have to understand that the situation originated in 1953, when the elected prime minister of Iran was removed from office by the CIA after an attempt to nationalize assets owned by British Petroleum. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9ta... This resulted in the Shah of Iran becoming more powerful, but was overthrown in 1978, when the hostages were taken. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_revolution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_revolution