1950: Corbis / Bettman 1953 • American and British intelligence services overthrow Mossadegh. A U.S. marine watches as a statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad. U.S. troops man tanks in the Saudi desert during the Gulf War. Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North is sworn in before a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the Iran-Contra affair. Their collaboration continues until the start of Iran’s 1979 revolution.Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela establish the President Richard Nixon travels to Iran to ask the shah for help protecting U.S. security interests in the Middle East, including by opposing a Soviet-allied Iraq. U.S. President Richard Nixon clasps the shah’s hand as he and First Lady Patricia Nixon prepare to depart from Iran. Oil prices skyrocket amid the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the subsequent Arab oil embargo against the United States, allowing the shah to purchase a larger supply of high-tech weaponry than anticipated, which unsettles U.S. officials.The shah flees amid widespread civil unrest and eventually travels to the United States for cancer treatment.
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But not only had the deal proved a hard slog to seal, it had also largely been framed by the US as the best chance of containing the threat from Iran rather than being the overture to a blossoming friendship.Although Barack Obama famo…
Officials from China, France, Germany, Iran, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union gather after finalizing the Iran nuclear agreement. These are external links and will open in a new windowFrom the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of Iran's prime minister in 1953, to tension and confrontation under President Trump, a look back over more than 65 years of tricky relations between Iran and the US.US and British intelligence agencies orchestrate a coup to oust Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadeq. July 1980 – The shah dies After traveling from the U.S. to Panama and then to Egypt, the shah dies in exile. US-Iran wasn’t very complex before World War II, but it soon turned chaotic when the US’s CIA helped stage a coup to overthrow Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953. The coup brings back to power the Western-friendly monarchy, headed by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. When the US and other world powers agreed in 2015 to lift sanctions on Iran in exchange for restrictions being placed upon its nuclear activity, it seemed as though Tehran was being brought in from the cold. The US secretly ships weapons to Iran, allegedly in exchange for Tehran's help in freeing US hostages held by Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. Iran blasts dummy US carrier with missiles.
Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a Shiite cleric who opposed the shah’s Westernization of Iran, returns to the country after fourteen years in exile. U.S. marines search for survivors in the rubble of their Beirut barracks after an attack by the militant group Hezbollah. Washington severs ties with Tehran, sanctions Iranian oil imports, and freezes Iranian assets. The United States blames Iran for the attacks, with Trump calling the country “a nation of terror.” The United States announces the deployment of one thousand additional troops to the Middle East in response, and the IRGC shoots down a U.S. surveillance drone two days later. Comprehensive sanctions and widespread corruption under the Oil-for-Food Program, created in the wake of the war, devastate the Iraqi public for nearly a decade, but fail to dislodge Saddam. Iran responds by boosting uranium enrichment in defiance of the agreement’s terms. Ahmadinejad addresses the General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York. The secular leader had sought to nationalise Iran's oil industry.Two weeks later, Islamic religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini returns from exile. American forces destroy two Iranian oil platforms and sink a frigate.
In June, the White House sanctions five Iranian ship captains involved in the delivery to discourage trade between Iran and Venezuela. Later … Iranian men in Dubai wait for news of their loved ones on the downed Iranian Air jet.
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