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Overthrow of Mossadeq
The CIA developed coup to overthrow the Iranian government and install their own. -
iranian revolution
The Shah, Iran's ruler for nearly four decades, had fled the country. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Shiite Muslim cleric who had worked for years to overthrow the Shah, was still in exile in Paris, but vowing to return and form an Islamic government. People took this as a away to get out of US control. -
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US Embassy Hostage Crisis
A group of Iranian students took hosatge a group of 52 Americans b/c president Jimmy Carter’s decision to allow Iran’s deposed Shah, a pro-Western autocrat who had been expelled from his country some months before, to come to the United States for cancer treatment. -
Tehran Hostage rescue mission fails
The US had a top-secret mission to help free the American Hostages in which the 8 soliders sent were killed. -
Tehran frees US hostages after 444 days
Iran finally agreed to release the hostages after the US said it would release assets frozen in American and other banks, including the Bank of England, since the embassy was seized. -
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Iran-Contra Scandal
The US secretly ships weapons to Iran, allegedly in exchange for Tehran's help in freeing US hostages held by Hezbollah in Lebanon.The profits are illegally channelled to rebels in Nicaragua, creating a political crisis for President Ronald Reagan. -
Iranian Passenger plane shot down
The American warship USS Vincennes shoots down an Iran Air flight in the Gulf on 3 July 1988, killing all 290 people on board.
The US says the Airbus A300 was mistaken for a fighter jet.
Most of the victims were Iranians on their way to Mecca. -
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Mohammad Khatami
Iranian President Mohammad Khatami tries to lessen the tension with the US in an agreement of sorts but there wasn't a breakthrough. -
Dubbed Evil
President George Bush denounced Iran an "Axis of Evil" along with Iraq and North Korea -
Iran accused of Nuclear
An iranian opposition group accused Iran of having nuclear weapons and uranium