Unseen Enemies Everywhere

Feel free to address these questions in your blog post(s).

1. Describe the relationship between the United States and Iran during the years between 1945 and 1950. They had kind of a love-hate relationship but instead of hate, it was just ignorance. America, at least from a governmental standpoint, was completely uninterested in what was happening in Iran at the time (the appointment of a new prime minister). While Iran's issues don't appear to have been quite as serious as those of the United States, they were still pertinent to the Iranian people. The book takes an interesting stand on this, saying that it was wrong of the United States to be blind to all of Iran's issues. And maybe it was. But from my own interpretation of the reading, it didn't seem unreasonable that the United States wanted to pay more attention to THE WAR THAT THEY WERE FIGHTING (indirectly, i guess. but still). The US had much bigger issues to pay attention to than the new prime minister of Iran, a country that wasn't even on their radar until much later in history.
On the other hand, the Iranian people had a different view of America. According to the book, they were completely obsessed. They loved not only America, but the American people. There had been individual americans that had gone over to Iran to help out their economic situation and many of them were very grateful. The iranians were also very grateful that the US helped them out with their oil issue with GB. Basically, when GB stopped splitting the profits with Iran on the oil, Iran could've revolted and gone communist so america stepped in to help them. 2. What were the attitudes of the United States and Britain not only towards Iran, but towards each other during this time period? 3. What circumstances caused Averell Harriman to be called into the situation in Iran?