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Iran and the United States have had a hostile relationship for decades now. They have had many issues with each other. One of those issues  is when in 1988, an United States warship shot down an Iran air flight killing all 290 people that were on the flight. Later the U.S president George Bush announced that Iran is part of an axis of evil with Iraq and North Korea. Which soon causes Iran to be angry. This starts the going back and forth of getting revenge on each other. So as we can see the United States and Iran are not allies with each other and are not on good terms.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-24316661

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While kazakhstan was still being ruled by Russia, their trade deals went up,agriculture was developed, and the first industries were put in place. The Russians took up their good land to cultivate on it but they also taught them how to do it. But in the early 1990's kazakhstan's economy dropped. The years kept passing and the economy kept dropping in agriculture and industry. In 1995 though industry increased by 4 percent but it wasn't good news since agriculture kept dropping. Kazakhstan suffered hyperinflation after they gained their independence. By 1995 the inflation percentage was around 190. By the 2000s Kazakhstans economy blew up. They had more than 20 billion dollars pouring in from their investments with other countries. Kazakhstans economy grew by 75 percent over the past years. In recent years Kazakhstan joined the Eurasian Economic Union on January 1, 2015, which inlcudes Russia and Belarus. In April 2016,their was a protest against government landforms and their has also been terrorist attacks. http://factsanddetails.com/central-asia/Kazakhstan/sub8_4e/entry-4671.html

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Iran is the 60th largest export economy out of 221 and the 51st largest import economy. Iran exported 31.8 billion dollars and imported 43.9 billion dollars in 2015. The top export in Iran is Crude Petroleum. In 2015 they got 18.3 billion dollars from crude petroleum. The top export destination of Iran is China. Iran's debt was 132 million dollars in 2016. 1/3 of Iran's land is farmland, 1/10 of Iran's land is under cultivation, but less than 1/3 of it is irrigated and the rest is used for dry farming. Some areas have poor soil, they lack water, their seeds aren't that good and their farming techniques are outdated. These problems have led to poverty in some areas and low crop providers. Progressive government efforts and incentives slightly helped to improve the agriculture production. Iran's poverty has fallen from 13.1% to 8.1% from 2009 to 2013. During the late twentieth century Iran had some obstacles for improving its economy, their population doubled and their population was mostly youth. Iran is one of the countries that still allows child executions. Primary education is ages 6 to 12 and high school education is ages 12 to 18. Iran doesn't have schools with different sex children. At least 14% of Iran's youth is put into child labour. Iran has a lot of oil reserves so that's where people usually go to for jobs.
http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/irn/
http://www.heritage.org/index/country/iran

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Kazakhstan - U.S. Assistance to Kazakhstan (Marley)

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Kazakhstan - U.S. Assistance to Kazakhstan (Marley)

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The U.S. provides assistance with problems such as immigration, drug trafficking and possible terrorist threats. They help with improving the functionality of the judicial system. They also help maintain a healthy trade environment and make them a good investments to other countries.
https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5487.htm

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Kazakhstan - Bilateral Economic Relations

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Kazakhstan - Bilateral Economic Relations

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Kazakhstan is the 83rd largest importer to the U.S. and the 69th largest exporter to the U.S. The U.S. has invested more than 42 million to Kazakhstan from 1993 to 2013. Kazakhstan has made a lot of progress on making their country a good investment to other countries but corruption is still prominent in the country.
https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5487.htm

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Kazakhstan - President Speaks at the White House

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Kazakhstan - President Speaks at the White House

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President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan spoke at the White House on Feb 14, 1994. Nazarbayev and Clinton spoke about the plans to eliminate the remaining Soviet nuclear missiles and ending any possible threats of nuclear warfare in the former soviet states. They also discuss the amount of money the U.S. is giving to Kazakhstan, which was 226 million dollars. They also discuss other political matters regarding the USSR and its surrounding states.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?54553-1/uskazakhstan-relations

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Hassan has been in power since 2013. Before becoming president he had important government positions or posts after the iranian revolution. His goal is to engage in diplomacy with western powers which so far as led him to a nuclear agreement with the major powers in 2015.
http://www.biography.com/people/hassan-rouhani-21313175

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This is the third president. He was in power from 2005 to 2013. Not only was he the president he was also the main political leader of the alliance of builders of the Islamic Republic. His thoughts though on human rights, nuclear development, and Israel caused him to be isolated from both the western and Islamic worlds then causing him to lose to next election to Hassan Rouhani.
http://www.biography.com/people/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-38656
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-10866448

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The second president is Mohammad Khatami. He served in 1997 to 2005. He rose to power because he worked with the Iran government in the earlier years. He worked as a minister of culture and adviser to president Rafsanjani. With that being said since people knew of him and knew what he was capable of he was voted into presidency by 70%. He main thing that got him removed or disliked was that his main goal was to get contact with the United States, when he domestic opponents heard of this they disagreed.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mohammad-Khatami
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mohammad-Khatami

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The shah sent Khomeini into exile in Iraq for accusing him of corrupting Iran's Islamic values later on Iraq's ruler forced khomeini to leave so he settled in Paris. Khomeini started causing trouble for the Shah while he was in exile. His statues were torn down and the Shah's family pictures were burned and thrown in the streets. In 1979 the Shah fled to Egypt and never returned. The shah went into the U.S. to be treated for a medical condition and when the Iranians found out they stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. They held 52 American Embassy workers hostage for 444 days. Neither side gave in and Iran had become an Islamic Republic on April 1st, 1979. Soon after Ronald Reagan was elected president the american hostages were freed. After Iran was declared an Islamic Republic, Khomeini wanted to remove the left-wing, nationalist and intellectual allies from their power in the new regime. He passed the Family Protection Act which gave rights to women in marriage. Many of the western educated elite fled the country as well.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Iranian-Revolution-of-1978-1979
http://www.gohistorygo.com/iranian-revolution

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The first one is Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. He served as a president from 1989 to 1997. He had a love hate relationship with his people because they called him a blessing and a curse. He was a blessing to them because he helped them push for a nuclear deal with the major powers in 2015 even though he was not in power. He was known as a curse though because he failed to prevent the mass execution of descendents in the late 1980's.

Fun Fact: He just passed away this year on January 8th of a sudden heart attack.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hashemi-Rafsanjani

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Kazakhstan - U.S. - Kazakhstan Relations (Marley)

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Kazakhstan - U.S. - Kazakhstan Relations (Marley)

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Kazakhstan showed great compliance and allegiance to the U.S. by removing its nuclear weapon program and closed the  Semipalatinsk Test Site in 1993. The U.S. assisted Kazakhstan by removing warheads and weapons-grade materials in 1994. Kazakhstan gave the U.S. a half ton of uranium and in 1995 they removed their last warhead and in May of 2000 they sealed 181 nuclear test tunnels at  Semipalatinsk Test Site. The allegiance between the two countries led to the signing of many treaties and agreements that banned chemical weapons and testing them and many other related topics.
https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5487.htm

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Kazakhstan -Nursultan Nazarbayev (Alexis Ortiz)

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Kazakhstan -Nursultan Nazarbayev (Alexis Ortiz)

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Nursultan was the first president of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union(CPSU) in 1962. He worked his way up and by 1979 was a true member of the Supreme Policy-making Body of the Communist Party in Kazakhstan(Kazakhstan Politburo). He kept climbing up the political ladder until 1990 when he became the first president of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Nursultan has been the president ever since, winning every reelection with more than 90% of the votes. http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/nursultan-nazarbayev-1st-president-of-kazakhstan.html

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There government is called or known as the Islamic Republic which is a mixed government as in the executive, parliament, and judiciary are dominated by the clergy. Within this government they have presidents. Every four years the iranians vote for a new president or the same president can be elected over and over again. From 1989 to present day they have had four presidents.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Iran
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-14541327
http://www.voanews.com/a/how-irans-government-works-138874059/175447.html

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In December of 1991, when Kazakhstan became independent the communist party that they had in place was renamed the Socialist party. The Republican Party, the Social Democratic Party, and the Alash Party of National Independence were also put in place. In the middle of the 1990s, 4 large nationalist kazakh movements were happening. Three of the four nationalist were Azat, The Republican Party and Zheltoksan were trying to make one large party called Azat. Their purpose was to remove all colonialist influence from kazakhstan. The fourth big movement was that Alash didn't want to take part of this movement because they thought it was a more nationalist movement.
http://factsanddetails.com/central-asia/Kazakhstan/sub8_4d/entry-4661.html