Originally Posted by
peadar1987
If we're talking about things that were years in the making, the whole thing dates back to the 1950s, when the US and UK deposed Mohammed Mossadeq, the democratically elected, liberal, secular prime minister, because he tried to nationalise the oil industry. That was what started the slide towards the Ayatollah Khomeini and the repressive Islamic republic. That's where the whole "death to America" thing in Iran has its roots.
There are a few things wrong with this:
-The Obama administration didn't "give" $150 billion to Iran. An international agreement, of which the US was a part, agreed a deal in which $150 billion worth of Iranian assets would be unfrozen and sanctions lifted, in exchange for Iran halting uranium enrichment and allowing international inspectors access to inspect its civilian nuclear facilities. That brings them further from that "big bomb".
Since Trump pulled back from the deal, Iran have resumed uranium enrichment.
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