Israel and the US want to overthrow the Ayatollah and return the Shah to power. The US did this in '53 after Mossadegh announced, in '51, that he was nationalising all the oil in Iran. The US made the Shah the supreme ruler of Iran and helped him build a pro-Shah force that would keep him as supreme ruler. But then, in '73, the Shah nationalised the Iranian oil, and the US found an Ayatollah who only wanted to force all Iranian women to wear Islamic dress, and who didn't care about Iranian oil.
The Ayatollah the US helped to replace the Shah had all the Americans in the US Embassy in Iran captured and held hostage until '81 after Reagan was elected to replace Carter. But, while the Ayatollah released the US hostages after Carter was removed from office, the Ayatollah never returned the US oil. That Ayatollah died, but his replacement did not return the American oil to the US.
Israel tried to get rid of the Ayatollah, but failed, and need US bombers to destroy Israel, but the US do not seem interested.
It is said the Trump agreed to bomb Iran after Israel threatened to use nukes, so the US bombed the nuclear sites in Iran and Trump said all Iranian nuclear facilities were totally destroyed.
Most experts figure the Iranian nuclear facilities are still there in Iran, the Trump strike did limited damage.
Strictly speaking, no one has made a nuke from scratch without 60 tonnes of uranium. It is said that the US helped Israel get 100 tonnes of uranium, more than enough to build 60 to 200 nukes. No one knows for certain how much uranium Israel has, or how many bombs. Probably enough to totally destroy Iran and leave a radioactive waste where Iran used to be.
The US wanted to get back the Iranian oil so they could sell it, but maybe the US would settle for the complete destruction of all Venezuelan and Iranian oil production, and two new pro-American governments who will give the US complete control over Venezuelan and Iranian energy assets.
And maybe that will work and cut the PRC off from most of the oil they require.
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