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Iran, today, is ruled by an integralist religious regime, created on 1980 after the fall of the Shah's monarchy.
This regime is only formally democratic and it has imposed the Islamic law on Iranian society, with the ban or the repression of most of what comes from the Western world, because considered "corrupting and immoral".
Consequently, also in its foreign policy, Iran keeps on following a line of hostility toward the United States and, to a minor extent, Europe.

There're not diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Iran, while the latter keeps moderately good relations with Russia, to use them as a support for Iranian anti-American policy.

Furthermore, Iran blows on the fire of MO conflict among Israel and the Arab Countries proclaiming, at every occasion, that Israel must be destroyed and financing the integralist terrorists of Hezbollah in Lebanon, so that these can keep on using this little and unhappy Country as their base and battlefield for their bloody attacks against Israel.

Iran's policy is surely an instability factor for the whole MO, above all considering a further trouble for the governments of all the world; Iran is trying to build atomic bombs, starting from the plants for uranium enrichment in its nuclear power generators.

This short description of Iranian role in the last decades can make us understand why Iran can really threaten world oil commerce and cause a real economic and financial crisis in all the world, if we consider that it occupies all the northern side of the Persian Gulf until the Hormuz Straits, the bottle-neck through which the largest part of all Arab oil passes today, carried by hundreds oil tanker ships every year.
The critical point is the friction between the U.S. and Iran, surely worsened after the beginning of the 2nd Bush's War against Iraq (2003), that has installed about 150,000 U.S. and N.A.T.O. troops in Iraq, for a useless war against Saddam Hussein and, afterward, against local and foreign integralist militias that have been attacking every day the Americans and the local police.

Iran has surely given cover support to these terrorist militias against the Americans, who have already lost nearly 4500 soldiers to date, but avoiding to push this situation to the extreme consequences of an Iranian intervention to free the "Sciite brothers" in Iraq.

The problem for Western Countries is that they depend much on all the oil passing everyday through the Hormuz Straits, under the eyes of Iranian Pasdarans and soldiers; so,

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