Re: U.S. preparing missile strike on Syria as evidence mounts of chemical weapon use
US helped Saddam fight the longest war ever fought known to this mankind resulting in death of million plus Iranians. Iran’s national assets and cash stored in US has been frozen since revolution and the amount isnt small. Iran’s ex Shah along with family got exile in US where they still live. US shot down Iranian civilian passenger jet once killing evrrybody onboard (search ‘Iran Air flight 655’). Iranians once held US embassy staff hostage in what is known as one of the severist diplomatic stand off between the two countires. During same stand off US sent commandos to free up the hostages but the 3 helicopters carrying them were destroyed (search ‘operation eagle claw’). The only few entities that resist Israel -and you probably know what Israel mean to the US- namely Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jehad are all receiving pay cheques from Tehran. US has put so many sanctions, economic ones, on Iran that you will struggle to find exact count. The severity of these sanctions is to an extent that you try going to a your local bank and try asking them that you want to send 50 dollars to Iran. Guess what the teller is goingto tell you…Seymore Hersh from NY Times broke a story few years back detaling how there is a special commitee within US defence machinery that has some ridiculously high budget handling Iranian file with the sole aim of sabotaging that country every possible way.
Boy, if that is being an ally then I do not know what a nemesis might look like. And I have not even written much as I am typing on my mobile.