Did Iran and/or Iranian government did anything bad to the US or ever threaten US in any way whatsoever?

Question

Tventy eight years ago there were Iran hostage crisis. A diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States that was triggered by a group of militant university students who took over the U.S. diplomatic mission in Tehran on November 4, 1979.

Were there any other serious incidents between Iran and US?

Answer 1

I myself could not recall any incidents other than Iranian Hostage Crisis during 1979. The fact of the matter is that Iran has a lot of natural resources and one of them is oil which US do not have. That is why at the present time Iran is being demonised and being accused of all the possible sins against US, Israel and Europe. So that accordingly brainwashing of American people began in order to form favourable public opinion to start the war with Iran.

Answer 2

You really need to read about the Iran Contra scandal. It's not a conspiracy theory. Also google Reagan Saddam-the National security archives have released many documents. The Reagan administration including Donald Rumsfield and Robert Gates put Saddam in power because they hated Iran. No kidding. Also sent him weapons.

I read this just this morning. Remember those Kurds that Saddam was killing?

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — U.S. troops arrested an Iranian man during an early morning raid on a hotel in this northern Iraqi city Thursday and accused him of helping to smuggle a deadly type of roadside bomb into Iraq .


But the Kurdistan Regional Government in a statement called the arrest "illegitimate," said the man was a member of a trade delegation that had been invited to Sulaimaniyah by the local government and demanded that he be released.

So the Kurds now are defending Iranians? I just couldn't make this stuff up, it's so bizarre.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20070920/wl_mcclatchy/20070920bcusiraq_attn_national_foreign_editors_ytop;_ylt=Ag.ACdV3r50fUQc9kf5N8vus0NUE

Answer 3

No because after that or during they were at war with Iraq for 8 years or more and that kept them pretty busy.
They wanted to be on good terms with the US. They didn't want the US to help Iraq win the war. In the end no one won the war but millions died on both sides.
AT the same time Afghanistan was at war with Russia and the US aided Afghanistan to fight with the Russians saying if Russia takes over the middle east it will be coas.
No one will be save from the Russians.
But they didn't realize the Russians don't want to die and so the cold war worked. But the Islamic extremists want to die and don't mind taking a bunch with them. So in the end they were the ones to fear. Note: we helped the wrong side.
Then there was Pakistan fighting with India. Who irritated China who was fighting with Japan. Now all but Iraq and Iran have nuclear weapons and they are not afraid to use them and most of those countries are usually at war.
Given the fact that Atom bombs are not that difficult to make and most countries have them, today. Immigration is very open and we have a lot of terriorists already in this country to carry out unspeakable acts. The world is at a cross roads.
To make Iran mad or prevent them from taking over Pakistan? Who has weapons of mass destruction?
The perfect outcome would be that Iran ticks off Pakistan and they blow them off the face of the earth.

Answer 4

The iranian government has used it's covert establishment to arm and direct several anti-american operations. I suspect that that kind of behavior was reciprocated by the US. The US did support Iraq against Iran during the Iraq/Iran war so to some extent their upset with the US is justified. Still, nobody from our side has ever attempted to cool this building animosity down so now we're stuck with it. The current Iranian gov't still remembers that the US supported the horror story of the Shah's SAVAK terror police and the excesses of that regime...another reason for them being less than in love with the US. Probably another leg of htis situation is that all thugocracies require an outside enemy to stay in power....for the Iranian bums its the US....for the Bush Junta it's 'the terrorists'. Could we deal with this if we wanted to? Probably. Will we? Not as long as we have an 'oil only' so-called energy policy..a policy that keeps us engaged in the middle east. Our problems with Iran has a lot of moving parts, but mostly it revolves around oil.

Answer 5

Are you that blind?
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that Iran has been funding terrorism for decades.
Hezbollah, once a little known organization, is now an internationally know terrorist organization thanks to Iran and Syria.
I can see though that if you are an isolationist, you could care less.

While you make it sound as if the "crisis" in 1979 was done solely by militant students, by the way, it's obvious you weren't even born then due to your cut and paste, their government had every chance in the world to end it, but actually supported and protected it. What that was my friend was an outright act of war. We restrained ourselves immensely.

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WOW! Three thumbs down? Every word I spoke was the truth. I guess libs hate Inconvenient Truths.

Answer 6

Now you see how fragile relationships can be. Thats why embassies are set up between countries to smooth relationships and misunderstandings. Iran was arrogant for storming the US embassy and we were stupid for helping Iraq in the Iran v Iraq war. Both countries lost a lot.

Answer 7

Two attempts during the Reagan years to mine the international waters of the Persian Gulf.

Your dismissal of the hostage crisis as a diplomatic crisis reveals that you are either biased, or as ignorant as Jimmy Carter. That was an invasion of an embassy. Embassies are the sovereign territory of the nation they represent.

That wasn't just a mere protest, that was an invasion of the United States. Moreover, that group of students became the current government of Iran.

I might also mention that it wasn't the first time they did that, either.

Answer 8

The only wrong Iran did was it choose not to live as the USA's poodle. It asserted itself. It badly affected American influence in the region as with both Iran and Israel it had strong reliable allies. With Iran pursuing an independent line The USA has to depend on weaker nations to protect it's interests in the area. We must remember it was the USA that backed Saddam to wage war on Iran with a secert promise Iraq could annex Kuwait. You just can't trust the US administration.

Answer 9

The real enemy is a US government ally.

'The charities were part of an extraordinary $70 billion Saudi campaign to spread their fundamentalist Wahhabi sect worldwide. The money helped lay the foundation for hundreds of radical mosques, schools, and Islamic centers that have acted as support networks for the jihad movement, officials say.

U.S. intelligence officials knew about Saudi Arabia's role in funding terrorism by 1996, yet for years Washington did almost nothing to stop it. Examining the Saudi role in terrorism, a senior intelligence analyst says, was "virtually taboo." Even after the embassy bombings in Africa, moves by counterterrorism officials to act against the Saudis were repeatedly rebuffed by senior staff at the State Department and elsewhere who felt that other foreign policy interests outweighed fighting terrorism.' (US News and World Report)

Answer 10

Iran is having a great time they hate iraq they hate america so they give iraq weapons. These weapons kill iraqis they kill americans. They would love to see the americans spread thier selves so thin they would be ineffective. Iran is really taunting the americans and killing them by proxy. This aggression is not by radicals its from thier government.