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The CIA developed coup to overthrow the Iranian government and install their own.
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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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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.
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The US had a top-secret mission to help free the American Hostages in which the 8 soliders sent were killed.
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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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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.
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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.
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Iranian President Mohammad Khatami tries to lessen the tension with the US in an agreement of sorts but there wasn't a breakthrough.
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President George Bush denounced Iran an "Axis of Evil" along with Iraq and North Korea
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An iranian opposition group accused Iran of having nuclear weapons and uranium