Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh and his daughter look out an airplane window following a 1951 trip to the United States
  
  
  
  
    Americans held hostage in Iran return to the United States on January 27, 1981
  
  Source: Department of Defense
  
  
    An American protests during the Iranian hostage crisis in November 1979.
  
  
  
  
    Graffiti on the walls on the former U.S. Embassy building in Tehran
  
  Source: Phillip Maiwald (Nikopol)
  
  
    U.S. President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office with Caspar Weinberger, George Shultz, Ed Meese, and Don Regan discussing Reagan's remarks on the Iran-Contra affair
  
  Source: Ronald Reagan Library
  
  
    A torture device used by SAVAK, the shah's secret police, to pull out fingernails of detainees
  
  Source: Public Domain
  
  
    Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi distributes land ownership documents to women during his "White Revolution,"1963
  
  Source: Public Domain
  
  
    The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the future supreme leader of Iran, returns to Iran following his exile abroad, February 1979
  
  Source: Wikimedia Commons/ www.sajed.ir
  
  
    A building with an anti-American mural in Tehran
  
  Source: Wikimedia Commons/Bertil Videt
  
  
    U.S. President George W. Bush's 2002 State of the Union address, in which he labelled Iran part of an "Axis of Evil"
  
  Source: White House
  
  
    U.S. President Barack Obama's speech at Cairo University on 2 June 2009, in which he called for “a new beginning” in relations between the United States and the peoples of the Middle East
  
  
  
  
    Iranians remember Neda Agha Soltan, whose death in 2009 rallied the Iranian opposition
  
  Source: Wikipedia
  
  
    U.S. President Jimmy Carter toasts Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in 1977
  
  
  
  
    U.S. President Harry S. Truman and Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, 1951
  
  Source: Truman Library
  
  
    A memorial at Arlington National Cemetery to members of the U.S. armed forces killed in a failed attempt to rescue Americans held hostage in Iran
  
  Source: Flickr/bobafred
    A bust of Howard C. Baskerville, an American Presbyterian missionary, who died in 1909 fighting for a constitutional monarchy in Iran. The bust, which is housed in downtown Tabriz, bears the legend: 'Patriot and Maker of History.'
  
  Source: Wikimedia Commons/Vathlu
  
  
    American relief workers survey earthquake damage and assist relief efforts following a 2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran.
  
  Source: FEMA