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Why has the United States not attacked Iran in the past thirty years? [closed]

Why didn't the United States of America even try to attack Iran to change it's Islamic regime through a lightning war like Iraq war in past three decades? According to my own opinion the Islamic ...
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Why the resurgence of Islamic powers in the middle east in the past three decades? [closed]

Why has Islam made such a resurgence in the Middle East? Why did it began with Iran? (while Islam originally came from Saudi Arabia) Is there any relation between US President Carter's open political ...
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Why didn't United States replace Mohamad Rezā Shāh with another king during the 1979 revolution?

During World War 2 Rezā Shāh was forced to abdicate in favor of his son. This way, why during Iran's revolution the Carter's administration had arranged for the shah to leave Iran? Why didn't they ...
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Was Ayatollah Khamenei a KGB spy before the 1979 revolution?

(1) Was Ayatollah Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, a graduate of the Patrice Lumumba People’s Friendship University in Moscow? (2) If the answer to (1) is 'yes', then is there evidence he had ...
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Why did Carter force the Shah toward a more open political atmosphere in Iran?

Why did Jimmy Carter force Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi toward a more open political atmosphere in Iran? (This policy led to change the regime in Iran, and transformed it into an enemy of the United ...
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Who really put to flight American hostages in America's embassy in Tehran in 1979? [closed]

Was it by Canadians or CIA? That's all! I think it doesn't need more contexts as it is a very clear question. Please when you try to answer ( if you have an answer ) forget movies and imaginary ...
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Past US invovlement in Iran and Iraq

If I remember correctly that the U.S did switch sides between sides supporting both Iraq and Iran at some point due to some sort of Cold War Reason. So my question is did the U.S. back empowerment of ...
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Why does the United States of America support Israel against Iran? [closed]

Why is it US foreign policy to support Israel in a hypothetical war with Iran? In the history of relations between U.S and Israel I don't see anything that Israel has ever done for the US to deserve ...
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What was President Jimmy Carter's role in the Iranian Revolution?

Iran was a friend to the USA until Carter traveled to Iran and immediately afterwards Iran faced revolution. Khomeini went to Iran from France. On November 4, 1979, an angry mob of young Islamic ...