Why is the USA an enemy of Iran?

Answer 1

Partially it is due to religious views in Iran. In their view the American lifestyle goes against Islamic law, thus making us sinful. Additionally, the U.S. is allied with Israel a primarily Jewish-controlled country that was set up largely in place of the mostly Islamic-controlled Palestine. Iran and other Islamic nations resent the U.S. support of Jewish control over what Christians Jews, and Muslims alike regard as the Holy Land. However, part of it has to do with the direct relation in history history of the U.S. with Iran. In 1953 a joint operation of U.S. and British intelligence agencies, headed by Kermit Roosevelt of the CIA, incited a coup that overthrew the popular and democratically elected Mohammad Mosaddegh after he declared plans to nationalize oil fields owned by British oil companies. In his place they installed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, popularly known as the Shah. He was a brutal dictator and his rule was supported by the U.S. until his overthrow in 1979. After his overthrow he was taken into the U.S. for medical treatment, which sparked much resentment among the Iranians, and some in Iran feared the U.S. would try to reinstall him. This history has brought about a strong dislike and distrust for the U.S. in that country.
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Answer 2

Answer 1

• Because USA support Iran enemies.
• Because USA wants Iran to be a puppet like many other countries.

Answer 2

The US had a warm relationship with the Shah of Iran and supported him for a few decades. After the Iranian Revolution, the Shah fled to Egypt, but was forced to come to the United States for cancer treatments. While he was in the US, the Iranian government demanded that the Shah be returned to Iran for trial (and most likely summary execution). The US refused. As a display of their anger, the Iranian government attacked the US Embassy in Tehran and held its members hostage for 444 days. Iran has never apologized for this violation of US sovereignty, which is a violation of all international diplomatic norms.

Furthermore, the government of Iran is the only government in the world that repeatedly and actively incites for and monetarily supports the eradication of another UN member state. Given that this is a member state with which the US has had a fruitful fifty-year alliance, that causes additional strain.

Finally, the Iranian government represses its own people to an unimaginable degree and the US will not support such a regime against the will of its people.