Iran is near Russian oil, gold and more

The name of the game is always money. We know the US government does not care about the human rights of the people of Iran. After all, the US backed the CIA's overthrow of a democratic government in 1953 and installed the fascist Shah of Iran, and then gave its successor, cleric Khomeni, guns for money for the anti-communist Contras in Nicaragua. Iran has lots of oil, and so does its nearby neighbor, Russia.

Iran is an oil rich country almost bordering another oil rich country, Russia, with US military bases on former Soviet Republics between them, that supports opponents of Israel.
From: "International issues in the Iranian crisis" at
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jun2009/pers-j25.shtml
"There were (and are) many points of conflict between the nationalist regime in Tehran and the United States. The appeal of Iranian-style Shiite populism threatened the Sunni rulers of Shiite-majority areas in the southern Persian Gulf, such as Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich Eastern Province. The regime refused to allow US military installations in Iran, depriving the US of valuable military bases and listening posts directed north into the USSR. More recently, Iran emerged as a major backer of Islamist opponents of Israel, such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Hamas in the Gaza Strip."

"Iran’s nuclear program has angered the United States—which believes that the acquisition of a nuclear weapon would enhance Tehran’s regional prestige—and frightened Israel, which views a nuclear Iran as an “existential threat.”"

"The United States, in the final analysis, seeks the restoration of the sort of relationship it enjoyed with Iran prior to 1979. It wants a puppet regime in Iran."

"Within the Iranian ruling elite, the question of relations with the United States looms large in internal conflicts. Those factions, associated with Mousavi, who favor the rapid reorganization of the Iranian economy on the basis of global market principles—in the interests of the wealthiest sections of the population—are prepared, in accordance with the logic of their program, to make substantial concessions to the United States. This is what has won them the support of the United States in the recent election and the resulting power struggle."

"Whatever its immediate results in Iran, the crisis has created significant political instability, which Washington hopes to manipulate to its advantage. The competing factions of the Iranian bourgeoisie will tend more and more openly to strengthen their internal position by seeking accommodation with Washington. The only social force that can resist such a neo-colonial settlement in Iran is the working class."

For more on Iran's oil and gas, see:
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0411-21.htm

For more on Russian oil, gas and coal, see:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Russia's_oil_industry

The former Soviet Union, now known as Russia, near Iran, with former Soviet Republics that are now American military bases between Russia and Iran, also has diamonds:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/business/global/12diamonds.html
gold,
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20070821/73010774.html
uranium
http://kylekeeton.com/2009/05/russia-says-that-we-have-enough-uranium.html
and other important minerals (nickel, cobalt, tungsten, silver, platinum, aluminum, copper, mercurcy, amber, zinc and more)
http://russia.rin.ru/guides_e/4319.html
and
http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Europe/Russia-MINING.html