History of Iran

Ok so this week I read in time magazine that Mohammed Khatemi claimed that he was planning to run for president again in Iran against incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Khatemi claims that drastic political changes are needed to prevent further harm to Iran's economy and international image. 

First off, starting back in January 16, 1979 Mohammed Reza left Iran for the U.S. at the time the U.S. had a very good standing with Iran. Not 3 weeks later Ayatollah Khomeini returned to office. Khomeini feared that the Shah, Mohammed Reza's, attempt to westernize Iran would lead to a loss of religion. The Shah had banned turbans, beards, and veils. In between this time the U.S. embassy had been captured

 and 60 U.S. hostages were kept for a year and a half during the extradition of the Shah.

Ayatollah after coming back began many senseless

 battles where he would send children out to fight armies with deadly weapons, he would send these child

ren out with only sticks and after all the sensesless battles 100,000 were dead and Iran was bankrupt. While in office Khomeini exceeded power by Iranian president and installed law by religious rule. On April 7,1979 Iran became a Theocracy.

 10 years later summing up a lot of history that happend in between. 

The Ayatollah died in 1989. Mohammed Khatemi was elected as president and quickly wanted to establish a nuclear arsenal, which is why I do not understand why they would want to

 elect him as president again. Isn't that why the U.S. started all this conflict in Iraq for. It was just to "check" for nuclear weapons. Iran's history is truly interesting and has A LOT more to it than what I summed up in a few paragraphs.