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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Explain Like I'm Five: What is the whole deal with Iran? What does he mean by a deterrent and how is it a threat to the world?

E: I watched the video but I could not understand well.

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The whole deal with Iran is that the west (US/Europe/Israel) used to own Iran. In 1954 the US installed the Shah.

However in 1979, there was a people's revolution in response to this, and they put in a very religious and anti-west leader ever since.

And this really got the goat of the west's leaders, so they've been trying to crack that nut ever since. They want to re-overthrow the government.

But the problem is that Iran isn't really doing anything bad to justify (in the eyes of the public) militarily attacking Iran. So there is this whole narrative cooked up about how Iran is "a threat to the world" and they're constantly searching for weapons that don't exist, to justify a hot war.

Iran knows this, and has been walking the tightrope for many decades now.

Iran and Syria represent the last two places the west has been unable to full conquer.

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Why isn't the West letting Iran be independent?