TEHRAN Former United States President Jimmy Carter severed his nations diplomatic relations with Iran on April 7, 1980.
After stating the cutting off of ties between Tehran and Washington, Carter purchased all Iranian diplomats to leave the United States within 24 hours.Carter threatened Iran, stating that it would pay a heavy price for not releasing the American slaves.
The United States president took the action after the late founder of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Imam Khomeini, approved of the United States Embassy takeover by Iranian students in Tehran that had actually occurred a few months earlier.The advanced trainees were asking for that Washington return the ruthless dictator Mohammad Reza Shah.
The fugitive shah had gotten here in New York on October 22, 1979, after securing President Carters authorization, outraging the Iranian revolutionaries.
The United States Embassy takeover happened thirteen days later on, taking sixty-six Americans captives, and required that the shah be extradited.Five ladies and 8 Black males were released in November, and another captive was released in July due to illness.
The remaining fifty-two people invested 444 days in captivity on suspicion of being spies.In response to Carters announcement of breaking diplomatic relations with Iran, the late Leader of the Islamic Revolution Imam Khomeini said that the move by the United States president would benefit the impoverished Iranian nation.I got the news on the decision to sever ties between Iran and the United States.
It was the best thing Carter might have carried out in his life as it would benefit the oppressed Iranian country.
The oppressed would be much better off after breaking those ties.
In the relationship in between a nation (Iran) that has actually revolted to complimentary itself from the domination of imperialists and colonialists, the oppressed nation is always the loser, and the colonialist is the winner.
We consider this breaking of ties as a true blessing due to the fact that it proves that America can not make use of Iran any longer.
I have actually repeatedly mentioned that our relationship with worldwide colonialists like America is a sort of relationship between an oppressed nation and imperialistsYou, dear Iranian country, will come out triumphant and overcome the hardships, Imam Khomeini said.After the seizure of the embassy, United States bitterness toward Iran got in a brand-new phase.
The blocking of Iranian residential or commercial properties and the imposition of sanctions have continued unabated to date.The United States hostility has outraged the Iranians more than the Iranian authorities in contrast to what has been declared by the United States authorities who declare that the sanctions have not targeted the normal Iranians.The severing of relations with Iran was not a smart move.
The subsequent sanctioning policy that Washington has pursued given that the Islamic Revolution in 1979 has inflamed the Iranian people as those pressures primarily targeted their incomes rather than those of the Iranian governments officials.For years, the United States has seized Iranian assets, depriving the Iranian nation of its oil revenues.The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has most just recently turned down United States President Donald Trumps call for direct talks amidst the Maximum Pressure campaign exercised by Washington against the Iranian nation.Iran has constantly said it looks for engagement and equivalent relations with all nations on the planet.
In the absence of diplomatic relations, Pakistan serves as Iran's securing power in the United States, while Switzerland works as the United States securing power in Iran.