Excerpt
(Excerpted From International Debates, December 2007)
The United States has had stormy relations with Iran ever since Islamic fundamentalists
overthrew the U.S.-backed Shah in 1979 and, later that year, took 66 Americans in the
U.S. embassy in Tehran hostage for 444 days. During the 1980s, the United States
supported Iraq in its war against Iran. In the 1980s and 1990s, Iran’s involvement in
Shiite insurgencies, including Hezbollah activities in Lebanon, ran directly counter to
U.S. interests in the region.
Iran’s nuclear ambitions have also been a source of concern for the United States,
although Ira…
In This Issue
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Foreword
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Remarks by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The Iranian President’s United Nations Address
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Kyl-Lieberman Resolution
Sense of the Senate on Iran
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Current U.S. Policy Toward Iran
Response to the Ahmadinejad Government
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Iran Profile
History, Government, Current Conditions, and Foreign Relations
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Pro & Con
Should the Senate Approve a Resolution Urging the United States to Designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a Terrorist Organization?
