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      masks when there are viruses in their city               as nine others; this resulted in the rage of  Iran

      would be infected very easily. More                      citizens. Iran almost started a war because of
      importantly, people who don't wash their                 Trump’s irrational decision, so this essay will be

      hands even when they get home can                        looking into how the US and Iran relation ship

      literally bring the virus home and affect                used to be, how it is now and how peop le
      their families. It's important to keep you rself         should reflect on this event.

      clean more often.                                             Currently many people started fol low ing
           To check if a person is infected or  not ,          news about US-Iran relationship, for the slight

      there are some simple methods. The                       possibility of WWIII after the assassination  of

      common symptoms of being infected are                    Qasem Soleimani. People feared the ou tcome
      coughing and shortness of breath. Also                   of this recent event, but the truth is the clash

      body temperatures is another indicator .                 between US and Iran goes all the way back to
      Now there are some solutions for  stop ping              1953. During 1953, the Britain’s intelligence

      the virus. Isolation for 14 days is mandator y           agencies went to Iran to spread propaganda,

      for people who might have come in contact                so they could trick the Iranians into
      with the virus. Scientists and doctor s are still        overthrowing their democratically elected

      creating more effective solutions for                    leader. After the overthrow of the leader, they

      stopping the virus from spreading.                       restored power to the Shah, Mohammed Reza
           Overall, bats that were eaten caused the            Pahlavi. The reason behind this act is because

      virus, and all the people in the wor ld have to          the new leader worked to nationalize Iranian

      stay home for a long time.                               oil against British’s interest, which they have
                                                               been exploiting for decades. Despite this being
                      US-IRAN                                  the British’s idea, the US is the one that
              RELATIONSHIP                                     executed it, resulting in the disgust and



                                                               distrust from Iranians. Although their
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                                                               relationship improved in the next 20 years, the
          The relationship between the US and Iran
                                                               ineffable hatred has already been implanted in
     has always been in a war-like state, and now  it
                                                               every Iranian’s heart.
     got even worse just a few days after the
                                                                    During 1979, a group of Iranians took
     celebration of new year, Trump launched an
                                                               hostage 66 Americans; they demanded the US
     airstrike on the Baghdad internation al airpor t
                                                               turn Shah over for trial, or else they will put the
     and killed one of the Iranian generals as well

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