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
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