The United States President Carter is the reason for the whole miseries happened to my country...
He is American, isn't he?
Agreed. That's his legacy.
He was a pathetic leader but it would seem the Iranian people revolted and installed an Islamic theocracy..I can't even blame Carter for that one.
A fact, and one which causes many of us a great deal of sorrow. Thanks to all for a pretty spirited discussion that did not deteriorate as they sometimes do. Many eyes are on Iran and I have hope for the Iranian people.
Only partly.
You could also blame Eisenhower. He was the President in 1953 during the CIA backed coup that put the Shah in power. The 1979 Islamic Revolution was a response to the regime of the Shah.
Going further back, you could blame the British, who forced the shah Reza Khan to abdicate in 1941 in order to sieze Iran's oil and (ostensibly) keep it safe from the Germans. British control of the oil led Premier Mussadegh to eventually sieze power, causing the U.S. to back the Shah in the 1953 coup.
Or you could blame the Soviets. They were instrumental in putting Reza Khan on the throne in 1921, and instigated the spltting off of Azerbaijan in 1945.
The trail goes back and back. Ultimately, though it always return back to the Iranian people. Coup after coup, they either by action or inaction brought about the current Iranian state. Case in point: it wasn't just clerics who threw out the Shah in 1979.
He was responsible for a lot of misery here in the United States also.