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Mossadeq's Overthrow
In 1953, Prime minister Mossadeq was overthrown by a CIA financed and organized coup. This followed by the revolution, and the anti-Americans -
Iranian coup d'état
People in Iran tryed to form a coup d'état to overthrow Moussadeq Government. It failed the first time, But the second time Moussadeq was put in jail. -
Iran's Oil
In the 1960 and the 1970s Iran's oil revenues grew considerably high. This affected their image also. It's real influence in domestic Iranian politics and policies declined. -
Iran's Revolution
In 1979, Iran had it's revolution. During the revolution, the Pro-American Shah was replaced with an Anti-American Leader Ayatollah Khomeini. Following and soon after the revolution, Hostility began to form between Iran and the United States. -
Economic consequences of the Iran hostage crisis
The United States used to be Iran's economic and millitary partner. After the 1979 seizure of the American Embassy in Tehran, the United States froze about $12 billion in Iranian assets, including bank deposits, gold and other properties. -
Iran hostage crisis
On November 4 1979, The revolutionary group "Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line" were angry that the overthrown past shah, Was allowed into the United States for cancer treatment. They took the action to put 52 U.S. Diplomats under hostage actions. They were held hostage for 444 days. -
Hezbollah bombings
The U.S. says that Hezbollah has commited several terroist attacks on the U.S. Such as the April 1983 United States Embassy bombing which killed 17 Americans, And the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing which killed 241 U.S. peace keepers in Lebanon. -
United States attack
In 1988 the United States launched what it called Operation Praying Mantis against Iran. Ment to be retaliation for the Iranian mining of areas of the Persian Gulf as part of the Iran-Iraq war. The United States had the largest naval attack since World War 2. -
U.S. shoots down Iran Aircraft
On July 3 1988, A Iran civilian aircraft was shotdown. This plane was mistakened for a warplane. USS Vincennes's crew says that the aircraft was outside the civilan air corridor, and did not respond to radio calls. -
Iran's nuclear program
Since 2003, The United States has alleged that Iran is planning to make nuclear weapons with their nuclear program. Iran says that their nuclear program is only aiming at making electricity. -
Iran and Iraq
The U.S. claim that Iran is backing militias in Iraq and supplying them with arms, in order to run a "proxy war' on the U.S. This "proxy war" has killed atleast 170 Americans. -
Iran and relations with U.S
On May 6th 2007 Iran said they were willing to improve relations with the U.S under certain situations. -
U.S. naval dispute
In 2008, The United States government accused Iran of harrassing and provoking their naval vessels. They stated that this happened in in December 2007, and January 2008. Iran accused the United States of creating media fuss. The U.S. Navy itself is unsure of where the threatening message was from. -
Meeting in baghdad
The meeting in Baghdad between Iranian and American diplomats, was the first formal direct contact after decades during which neither country would talk to each other. -
Iran-Contra Affair
In 1986 members of the Reagan administration helped sell weapons to Iran, using the profits to fund Contras militants in Nicaragua. This lead into a very large political scandal.