Iran Blog Post

The country of Iran has had a religious based government, known as a quasi- theocracy govenment, since the rise of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in 1979. This is causing the United States to question Iran over its suppression of the Green Movement, and constant involvement in helping milary groups such as the Hamas. Ultimately, Iran has not been at peace with the U.S. or the West for a very long time. While this conflict is a large reason for the tenstion between Iran and the United States, Iran's nuclear program is an even larger cause of the tension. People believe that this program is designed to develop nuclear weapons, and that they are constantly working to create new nuclear devices, that could potentially be dangerous. The U.S. and the European Union are joining together to do everything in their power to prevent Iran from getting financial support to help them fund their uclear program. The U.S. and European Union are also working to stop companies that are contributing to the nuclear industry in Iran, to decrease the nuclear problems that the industry is causing. The United States has been succesful in limiting the amount gasoline that Iran is given, and by cutting off investments to the industry. In responcse to the actions taken by the United States, Iran blocked one of their main connections for oil called the Straight of Hormuz. Recently in 2012, Iran's economic state really started to take a turn for the worst. Iran now suffers with producing money that is needed for their importing needs because of the turn in their economy. While the United States was successful is stopping Iran from recieving funding for their nuclear weapon developments, the downfall in their economy did negatively affect countries such as Britain and France because they depend on Iran for specific supplies such as oil which were cut off.