This is an article I wrote 7 years ago analyzing the allegations against the Iranian nuclear program and the history of the conflict between the US and Iran. Reading it again, I think it is still useful to understand some of the context and history, which is usually glossed over in the media. The article includes a number of references to further reading. World history moves slowly on human timescales. But looking back, some broad trends were quite clear. The last line of the article is definitely one that I would write again today.
https://mronline.org/2019/07/01/imperial-overreach-in-iran/ (Originally written for the Research Unit in Political Economy, but then republished in Monthly Review online.)
