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Shah's postitions had deteriorated to the point where he "wanted only to be allowed to stay in Iran" which was turned down. In December he was going to leave the country temporaily but he was turned down, so he and the empress left.
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The Shah was interested in reforming land so Ayatollah Khomeini was giong against the government but people agreed with him because they thought it was an assult on their religious lands so they decided to rebel. They put Ayatollah Khomeini as their leader after fighting the Iranian government who supported Shah.
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hostages are taken in iran because
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The Soviet Union sent troops to Afghanistan for a number of reasons. First, they wished to expand their influence in Asia. Second, they wanted to preserve the communist governtment that had been established in 1970's. Thirdly, the Soviets wanted to protect their interests in Afghanistan from Iran and western nations.
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The Shah of Iran had cancer so he went to the U.S for nedical treatment. Also U.S didn't want to make enemies with any leaders at the time.
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The U.S supported the Taliban because they hoped it would serve as a force to restore order in Afghanistan.
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The war began when Iraq invaded Iran following disputes. Fears of Shia insurgency among Iraq's long suppressed Shia majority by the Iranian Revolution.
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The U.S, Great Britain and Germany supported Saddam Hussein and because of that they traded with Iraq for oil and weapons.
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Iran had hostages and to get them out the U.S sold weapons to them.
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The money the U.S got from Iran were used to supple weapons to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua (Iran Contra Scandal).
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First published the story of controversial arm sales from the U.S to Iran later linked to funding of Nicaraguan Contras.
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The Soviets wanted to withdraw and stop fighting but while they were withdrawing they were being attacked by Afghan fighters. The withdrawal was finally completed on Feburary 15 1989.
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Iraq accused Kuwait of stealing Iraq's oil through slant drilling. Some Iraqi sources indicated that Saddam Hussein's decisions to attack Kuwait was made only a few months before the actual invasion.
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After Iraq attacked they tried to take over Kuwait. Then the United Nations stepped in.
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The U.S had a spy to fly over Iraq because citizens were scared the government would deny needs as citizens for Iraq air raids.
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Mohammed was elected president and a new constitution was adopted.
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They attacked us because we never broght justice and our enemies took us less and less seriously.
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The main reason the U.S invaded Afghanistan was to find Osamabin Laden and other high-ranking Al-Qaede members and remove Talbian.
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The U.S thought they had weapons of mas distruction but there wasn't any and they wanted to fix their government.
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Before U.S invaded Iraq we thought there was weapons of mass distruction that had a threat to the country.
