How do I know this, well my husband attended with some of those family members placed there by the S.D. for “safety”. So he had a crash course in the Middle Easter Mindset in regards to the Infidel Americans.
Even though we protected these people and gave them aide during a time where they could have been wiped out, they hated us.
Due to the times before of colonies and conquers... they had something the world needed and it was their power, and the struggle over it that has brought all this. Remember they had been through the process since the late 1800’s until now with treaties, the White Revolution, etc.
Saddam rose to power during this time.
In February 1979, Saddam Husayn's ambitious plans and the course of Iraqi history were drastically altered by the overthrow of the shah of .
The Baath leadership feared that the success of 's Islamic Revolution would serve as an inspiration to Iraqi Shias. These fears escalated in July 1979, when riots broke out in and in after the government had refused Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir as Sadr's request to lead a procession to to congratulate Khomeini. The fall of the moderate Bazargan government in late 1979, however, and the rise of Islamic militants preaching an expansionist foreign policy soured Iraqi-Iranian relations .