[ti:Troubled US-Iran Relations Pre-Date 1979 Revolution]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al:IN THE NEWS]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:05.27]in VOA Special English.
[00:08.57]When did the problems begin
[00:10.87]between the United States
[00:12.86]and Iran?
[00:13.86]Many Iranians say
[00:16.16]it was nineteen fifty-three.
[00:18.58]That year the United States
[00:21.38]supported the military
[00:23.25]overthrow of Mohammed Mossadeq.
[00:26.05]He was the nationalist
[00:28.33]prime minister
[00:29.52]of an elected government .
[00:30.89]Later, the United States
[00:33.87]supported the rule of
[00:35.55]Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.
[00:38.35]He fled the Islamic Revolution
[00:41.21]in nineteen seventy-nine.
[00:43.39]That November,
[00:45.07]supporters of a new
[00:47.00]religious leader in Iran,
[00:49.23]Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,
[00:52.22]captured the United States
[00:54.21]embassy in Tehran.
[00:56.57]They held more than
[00:58.63]fifty American hostages for
[01:01.24]four hundred forty-four days.
[01:03.98]The two countries ended
[01:06.65]diplomatic relations
[01:08.27]in nineteen eighty.
[01:10.01]And, when the Iran-Iraq war
[01:13.06]began that year,
[01:14.24]the United States supported Iraq.
[01:17.78]In nineteen ninety-seven,
[01:20.46]Iranians elected a president
[01:23.07]who raised American hopes,
[01:25.62]Mohammad Khatami.
[01:27.68]The next year,
[01:29.29]American Secretary of State
[01:31.60]Madeleine Albright called for
[01:33.90]the two countries to
[01:35.57]"explore further ways
[01:37.19]to build mutual confidence
[01:39.81]and avoid misunderstandings."
[01:42.17]She said it could be a step
[01:44.97]toward normal relations.
[01:46.65]But President Khatami said
[01:50.01]the United States would have
[01:52.31]to apologize for its part
[01:54.67]in the nineteen
[01:56.80]fifty-three overthrow.
[01:58.79]He said this in two thousand:
[02:01.72]MOHAMMED KHATAMI: "Through their confession,
[02:04.86]if the Americans accept to do it,
[02:06.78]I think that this will be
[02:08.09]a very big step toward
[02:09.65]removing our misunderstandings,
[02:10.77]but unfortunately in action,
[02:12.32]they have not done this."
[02:13.81]When President Obama took office
[02:16.36]in January of two thousand nine,
[02:19.04]he had a message for nations
[02:21.34]hostile to the United States.
[02:24.08]BARACK OBAMA: "To those who cling
[02:25.76]to power through corruption and deceit,
[02:27.87]and the silencing of dissent,
[02:29.74]know that you are
[02:31.04]on the wrong side of history
[02:32.47]-- but that we will extend a hand
[02:35.03]if you are willing
[02:36.21]to unclench your fist."
[02:37.64]The main target of that message
[02:40.19]was Iran's current president.
[02:42.43]This is what Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
[02:45.48]told the Associated Press this week
[02:48.03]during his visit to New York:
[02:50.45]MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD (INTERPRETER):
[02:50.45]"The United States administrations
[02:52.61]must recognize that Iran
[02:54.48]is a big power,
[02:55.54]and accept it as such."
[02:56.84]Outside the United Nations,
[02:58.90]demonstrators protested
[03:00.65]his yearly appearance
[03:02.52]among world leaders speaking
[03:04.57]at the General Assembly.
[03:06.38]President Obama said Iran
[03:09.36]had failed to respond to
[03:12.22]what he called the "extended hand"
[03:14.46]that he offered a year ago.
[03:16.95]He said new Security Council sanctions
[03:21.18]approved in June make clear
[03:23.92]that international law
[03:25.97]is not an empty promise.
[03:28.71]BARACK OBAMA: "Now let me
[03:29.64]be clear once more.
[03:30.57]The United States
[03:31.38]and the international community
[03:33.31]seek a resolution
[03:34.68]to our differences with Iran,
[03:36.55]and the door remains open
[03:38.41]to diplomacy should Iran choose
[03:41.09]to walk through it.
[03:41.96]But the Iranian government
[03:44.38]must demonstrate a clear
[03:45.32]and credible commitment,
[03:46.62]and confirm to the world
[03:48.49]the peaceful intent
[03:50.42]of its nuclear program."
[03:51.78]A few hours later,
[03:53.22]Mr. Ahmadinejad spoke.
[03:55.21]He said Iran remains ready
[03:58.69]for what he called
[03:59.81]"serious and free debate"
[04:02.61]with American officials
[04:03.91]on the nuclear issue.
[04:05.84]He also suggested that
[04:08.21]the majority of the American people
[04:10.26]believe that their government
[04:12.68]planned the attacks
[04:14.30]of September eleventh,
[04:15.92]two thousand one.
[04:17.35]MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD (INTERPRETER):
[04:17.66]"That some segments
[04:15.68]within the U.S. government
[04:17.18]orchestrated the attack
[04:18.98]to reverse the declining
[04:20.72]American economy,
[04:22.22]and its grips on the Middle East,
[04:24.52]in order to save the Zionist regime."
[04:28.19]He comments led American diplomats
[04:30.86]and delegates
[04:32.23]from several European countries
[04:34.41]to walk out of the assembly hall.
[04:37.15]President Obama told the BBC
[04:40.19]that the accusation was inexcusable,
[04:43.92]offensive and hateful.
[04:46.29]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:48.40]in VOA Special English.
[04:51.20]I'm Steve Ember.
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