America's Relationship With Iran

[erpowers]

It has been said that in the days after the 9/11 attacks Iran was one of the countries that offered to do anything in its power to help the United States capture anyone involved in the attacks, but the Bush Administration said no thanks. In addition, it has been said that when the Bush Administration had come out with some type of guidelines that Iran needed to agree to the guidelines were the same one that Iran had offered a few months earlier, but the Bush Administration rejected. Finally, I have heard that Iranian President Ahamadinejad was on the verge of losing the election in Iran, before said some stupid things, in that hardliners were not expected to go to the polls. Does anyone know where I can find any information about any of those things? It is not that I do not believe the stories it is just that if I get into a debate with anyone about the issue I would like to have facts and places to send people to find the infromation.

[Blue State Bandit]

1. here's a USA today article from June 2005

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In an interview by e-mail, Mohsen Rezaie, a candidate in Iran's presidential elections next week, says the United States has not given Iran enough credit. He says Iran played an "important role in the overthrow of the Taliban" in 2001 (Related: Full text of interview).

Even before U.S. forces entered Afghanistan, Iran backed the Northern Alliance, a loose coalition of warlords and militias from the Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara minorities. The alliance fought the ruling Taliban, a regime dominated by majority Pashtuns that imposed a harsh Sunni Islamic government.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-06-09-iran-taliban_x.htm

[Blarch]

2. I think it went bad here...

Iranians mourned this week the consequences of Anglo-American regime change as they marked the 50th anniversary of a CIA coup that toppled their democratically elected prime minister.

At a time when the United States has adopted a policy of preemptive action in its war on terrorists - and is portrayed here as encouraging student street protests - the 1953 overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh's government is taking on fresh relevance for some Iranians

This year, many political groups in Iran are showing more interest in the history of the military coup," says Ibrahim Yazdi, a former foreign minister and leading member of a political party that traces its origins to Mossadegh's National Front. "Now it seems that the Americans are pushing towards the same direction again. That shows they have not learned anything from history."


Organized by the CIA and the British SIS to secure Iran's oil resources from a possible Soviet takeover and secure Iran's oil resources, the coup marked America's first intervention in the Middle East. Its aftershocks are still being felt

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0822/p08s01-wome.html