I am suprised no one has anything to say about this.

The French were heavily involved with iran's nuke program in the 70's not the US.

You guys forget, prior to the Hostage situation relations between the US and Iran were decent.

Part of that deal was 70 or so F14's as well. The US sold them to Iran and they actually have those still (they cant be flown due to ill repair and lack of support)

I dont know why this story is so suprising to anybody.

Kind of an unrelated/related story from my youth:

When I was real young, prior to the hostage situation, I lived in a condo type community with a very high Iranian population in Tennasee. Well, these guys were the greatest people I had ever met. I remember to this day how they used to teach me how to play soccer and stuff. The "big kids" would even stop thier games to let me get in and play a bit. They would slow down and make sure I was ok and not getting hurt and having fun. It was a nice enough experience for me to remember it even now after 25 years. Anyways, one day they were all gone. Just up and left. Maybe 20 families just gone. Of course, this happened right after the hostages were taken. I was to young to understand what was going on of course.

I guess up till that point our governments shared favors to make pesonal interest gains. Iran wanted fighters and Nukes, the US wanted middle east pull and maybe a base or two. Its not suprising at all that the US shared some nuclear tech with them.

Bulgarian is actually 100% correct. I remember posting this information in reply to someone else here some time ago myself.

But then where is the surprise that the last thing this administration wants are Americans are reminded or encouraged to consider where we have come from and how we got here, hmm?

(and the Dr's comment - oh look everybody, France was involved too! - is as telling as it is a laughable attempt to distract.)

Is not Iran's nuke program perfectly legal? Insofar as its origins? The purpose of the IAEA is to spread nuclear technology. The US was a prime mover in this cause, and the US is one of the big architects of the spread of peaceful use of atomic power. The idea was to give power generation technology in exchange for the ability to monitor its usage to prevent it from being used to make weapons. It was a global program.

Wasn't the Iraninan revolution helped by the U.S as well?

Originally posted by sal88
Wasn't the Iraninan revolution helped by the U.S as well?

- I hadn't heard that one before sal.....

....other than that the USA 'helped' as a byproduct of helping the Shah maintain his repressive and corrupt regime.

Please tell us more.

Some have suggested that the US 'supported' the mullahs (before the revolution, up until they moved for revolution) so as to use them as part of the 'control system' in the region, possibly with the hopes of getting the motivational powers of the mullahs to work for the state rather than against it.

However, I have never seen any evidence for this and have only heard the idea in passing.

It was my understanding that the Shah was getting too much power, and wanted to do things lije nationalise the country's oil, the U.S didn't like the idea of this so they helped the revolution. I should be able to get more information for you.

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Originally posted by sal88
It was my understanding that the Shah was getting too much power, and wanted to do things lije nationalise the country's oil, the U.S didn't like the idea of this so they helped the revolution. I should be able to get more information for you.

You thinking of Mosadegh brother, and yes the US didnt want it to happen so the performed operation Ajax.

The reason I found this article intresting was because many of the people in other threads about Iran said that this country which sits on alot of oil and gas does not need and nuclear plant. When Presedent Ford offered Iran the nuclear reactor Irans oil out put was higher than it is now. So that kind of ruins the argument. And another funny thing is that the people who are now saying that Iran doesnt need nuclear energy and are trying to close Bushehr (Germany) are the ones that started building it.

Originally posted by Seekerof

Again, bear in mind that though you directly and only address the US involvement, their were also other "allies" that helped along Iran's Nuclear Program, correct bulgarian? Afterall, if your going to name one, why not name them all, eh?

Sure, I understood your analogy, yes Bulgaria and the former Sojvet Union where also involved (and now Russia is more involved than the US in this Atomic Program, no question about this). It started with the US, now its ending with Russia.

I think xu is very right in his statement.






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