Pahlavi dynasty

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, shakes hands with a US Air Force general officer prior to his departure from the United States.

The history of US-Iranian relations

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On November 4, 1979, during the Carter administration, Iranian revolutionaries stormed the American embassy in Tehran and took dozens of US diplomats and marines captive. They held them for more than a year. Relations between the two countries were destroyed.

Protestors during Iran's 1979 revolution.

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The US and Iran part I – the 1953 coup

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