Timeline of US-Iran relations

[Kao Boy]

In this ever changing scene of Middle East, every country has played a key role and key ally to Washington. Washington relations with Tehran is getting better US invites all Middle East leaders to negotiate on Iran Nuclear Deal. US retrieving attention from once closed allies like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and in fact Pakistan is also getting out of sight. Is something really good building between the two nations which can help both of them to play prominent role in the region or is it a mere necessity for Washington and Tehran.

Future will reveal itself and it will be evident soon but US and Iran has never had easy going relation, let's look at the pivotal incidents which created lows and highs in their relations through a time line.

January 1979: Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi flees Iran
The US-backed Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, is forced to leave the country on 16 January following months of demonstrations against his rule by secular and religious opponents. Two weeks later, Islamic religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini, who referred to America as the “Great Satan”, returns from exile.
April 1979: Islamic Republic of Iran formed
Following a referendum, the Islamic Republic of Iran is proclaimed.
November 1979: The Iran hostage crisis:
Angered by the Carter administration allowing the recently deposed Shah into the United States, the revolutionary group Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line occupied the American embassy in Tehran and took 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days. On April 24, 1980, a failed rescue – Operation Eagle Claw – resulted in the deaths of eight American servicemen and one Iranian civilian.
The crisis ended with the signing of the Algiers Accords in Algeria on January 19, 1981.
April 1980: The end of diplomatic relations
The United States end diplomatic relations with Iran, a break which has yet to be restored.
1983: Hizbollah bombings
United States implicates Hizbollah, an Iranian movement formed at the time of the Iranian Revolution, in terrorist attacks against the US. Attacks included the United States embassy bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 17 Americans, and the Beirut barracks bombing which killed 241 US peace keepers.
1986: Exchange of weapons
The US provided weapons to Iran, reportedly to fund anti-communist Contras militants in Nicaragua to help free US hostages held by Hizbollah in Lebanon. Reagan administration confirmed that weapons had been transferred to Iran but denied they were part of an exchange for hostages.
1988: Iranian Airbus shot down
US Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes shot down commercial airline Iranian Airbus A300B2, killing 290 civilians from six nations, including 66 children. The US says the Airbus A300 was mistaken for a fighter jet that was outside the civilian air corridor and was not responding to radio calls.
April 1995: Clinton administration embargo
A total embargo on dealings with Iran by American companies was imposed by Bill Clinton.
January 2002: “Axis of Evil”
President George W Bush gave his infamous speech describing Iran, along with North Korea and Iraq, as an “Axis of evil”.
The president warned that the proliferation of long-range missiles developed by these countries constituted terrorism and threatened the United States.
2002: Uranium development
Iranian opposition group reveals that Iran is developing nuclear facilities including a uranium enrichment plant at Natanz and a heavy water reactor at Arak. The US accuses Iran of a clandestine nuclear weapons programme, which Iran denied.
August 2005: Ahmadinejad becomes president
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad voted to become Iran's president
August 2006: UN debate invite turned down
Ahmadinejad invite to President Bush to a debate at the UN General Assembly was rejected by the White House.
September 2006: Financial sanctions
US government imposed sanctions on Bank Saderat Iran barring it from direct or indirect dealings with American financial institutions due to its reported connections with Hizbollah. Further sanctions on the financial sector were imposed by the US and EU in 2012 over Iran’s nuclear development.
2010: Walk out at UN speech
During a 2010 speech to the UN, Ahmadinejad sparks walkouts after he claims that most people believe the US government were behind the 9/11 attacks.
2013: First phone call between US and Iranian heads of state for 30 years
Iran's new President, Hassan Rouhani, held a phone call with President Barack Obama on a trip to the UN forum in New York – the first conversation between US and Iranian heads of state for 30 years. The US president said they both had expressed their determination to solve the long-running dispute over Iran's nuclear programme.

Washington and Tehran are showing keen interest in each other exhort that both and other Middle East leaders can reach on a deal which can serve everyone's purpose.

Except the timeline views are of my own based on recent developments on US-Iran Nuclear deal.

 

[Superboy]

I don't see any fuss with Iran. Just another Indo European country IMO.

 

[azzo]

I don't see any fuss with Iran. Just another Indo European country IMO.

Headed by a group of European democratic leaders, truly, the European heritage shines through these Indo-European elites:

All hail the European democratic republic of Iran. I really can't tell the difference between Iran and Finland or Sweden.

 

[Superboy]

Headed by a group of European democratic leaders, truly, the European heritage shines through these Indo-European elites:

All hail the European democratic republic of Iran. I really can't tell the difference between Iran and Finland or Sweden.

Finnish or suomi in their own words is not even Indo European

Finnish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Kao Boy]

Iran and U.S. Chemistry is worrying many in Middle East....

 

[IR-TR]

Iran and U.S. Chemistry is worrying many in Middle East....

Soon they may start playing footsies. And Iran IS Indo-European, but wtf does that mean anyway. As if that's important.

 

[Kao Boy]

Soon they may start playing footsies. And Iran IS Indo-European, but wtf does that mean anyway. As if that's important.

Indeed it is important... Dont you think so?

 

[IR-TR]

Indeed it is important... Dont you think so?

Well, it's nice to know what race you are I guess, but aside from that I don't see any importance to it. It'd like to think past race etc.

 

[Kao Boy]

Well, it's nice to know what race you are I guess, but aside from that I don't see any importance to it. It'd like to think past race etc.

Seems you have a lesser knowledge of bigger geo politics or just being ignorant...

 

[IR-TR]

Seems you have a lesser knowledge of bigger geo politics or just being ignorant...

What are you talking about? Okay so Iranians are indo-european. Does that mean the US and EU will magically help us or something? No, if anything, they haven't. Sure, Iran is more compatible with Western interests than the Arabs, but sadly for the past 35 years that hasn't translated into anything. Perhaps in the future again. If that is what you mean?

 

[Kao Boy]

Iraq shia majority and most of them were migrated from Iran so does that mean Iraq too is not compatible... on what grounds are you making this suggestion or perception...

 

[IR-TR]

Iraq shia majority and most of them were migrated from Iran so does that mean Iraq too is not compatible... on what grounds are you making this suggestion or perception...

What are you talking about? I talked about not seeing the importance of being one race or anther (indo-european or whatever else). And you talk about Iraqi Shia? Sorry if I'm rude, perhaps I missed your point. What compatibility?

 

[Saif al-Arab]

Indo-European is not an race. It's solely a linguistic family. Sri Lankans and Icelandic people are for instance both Indo-European speakers. So are Indians and Portuguese people.

Their languages are totally foreign to both those peoples. As much as Congolese and Chinese is to each other.

Nor do those people have anything in common in terms of culture, history and most importantly genetics.

Europeans are by most closely related with each other (compared to other populations) because they are neighbors. Same thing with peoples of the ME, South Asia, Africa etc. But to claim any racial kinship between Sri Lankans for instance and Brits based on the fact that both peoples speak an Indo-European language is beyond ridiculous. Same with trying to find an racial connection with Iranians and your average European.

A Turkic speaking Turk and an Arab speaking Syrian or an Indo-Iranian speaking Kurd have much more in common with each other than they have with an Afro-Asiatic speaking Hausa in Northern Nigeria, an Turkic speaking Kazakh or an Iranian speaking Baluch.

In any case all Europeans (especially those that are descendants of Paleolithic people who formed the last migration wave from the ME to Europe) are originally from the ME and all people from the ME are originally from Africa.

Another thing those linguistic families are all related with each other down the road and can all be traced back to long-extinct languages that our forefathers spoke in Africa and all present languages. The degree of kinship is varying though.

Also one thing is language another thing race. One thing is race and nationality and another thing is genetics. No humans on the planet (outside of identical twins) have the same genetic makeup yet ALL humans are related with each other.

Also then there is the actual "race" as described by European anthropologists mainly. In that sense there is a Caucasian race, Mongolian race and a Black race.

Race (human classification) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Within each of those 3 major human "races" there are dozens of sub-races. That should not be confused with nationality or even a ethnic group because in each nationality and ethnic group you have different phenotypes and people of different origins and obviously of a different genetic make-up.

Even among isolated peoples such as Aboriginals who were the first people who migrated outside of Africa and who lived in complete isolation for approximately 30.000 years until the Europeans discovered Australia there is a variety in phenotypes, genetic makeup etc.

This is off-topic but it was hard not to reply when I saw the posts in this thread.

Iraq shia majority and most of them were migrated from Iran so does that mean Iraq too is not compatible... on what grounds are you making this suggestion or perception...

That's incorrect and I don't know where you even have such nonsense information from. 90% of all Shia's in Iraq are Iraqi Shia Arabs from the South. They are more Arab than anyone else in Iraq and from more or less the exact same Arab tribes like people of nearby Northern KSA and Kuwait.
A minority is Afro-Arab. The people who you say are Persians are actually very few in between (especially after the deportations by Saddam's regime, not that they were ever even close to forming even 10% of the Shia population of Iraq) and are mostly people who claim to belong to Sadah families. Sadah families are families who trace their ancestry to Prophet Muhammad (saws) which makes them Arab in terms of paternal origin. Just like Khamenei and Khomeini before him.

They were confined to Najaf and Karbala. Those two cities are still to this day frequented by Sadah families from Iran. Especially as they have been able to return since 2003.

 

[jammersat]

Shi'ism is another arabian plot to continue islam , The safavids you say didn't invent shiism , state sponsored shiism goes back to the Fatimids in the arabian desert who were a weak dynasty and used muhammed's family and lineage to justify their rule instead of muhammed himself , his sunnah and hadith

any way back to the topic :

By 2020 : iran-USA diplomatic relations fully restored , embassies in both tehran and washington

 

[raptor22]

In this ever changing scene of Middle East, every country has played a key role and key ally to Washington. Washington relations with Tehran is getting better US invites all Middle East leaders to negotiate on Iran Nuclear Deal. US retrieving attention from once closed allies like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and in fact Pakistan is also getting out of sight. Is something really good building between the two nations which can help both of them to play prominent role in the region or is it a mere necessity for Washington and Tehran.

Future will reveal itself and it will be evident soon but US and Iran has never had easy going relation, let's look at the pivotal incidents which created lows and highs in their relations through a time line.

January 1979: Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi flees Iran
The US-backed Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, is forced to leave the country on 16 January following months of demonstrations against his rule by secular and religious opponents. Two weeks later, Islamic religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini, who referred to America as the “Great Satan”, returns from exile.
April 1979: Islamic Republic of Iran formed
Following a referendum, the Islamic Republic of Iran is proclaimed.
November 1979: The Iran hostage crisis:
Angered by the Carter administration allowing the recently deposed Shah into the United States, the revolutionary group Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line occupied the American embassy in Tehran and took 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days. On April 24, 1980, a failed rescue – Operation Eagle Claw – resulted in the deaths of eight American servicemen and one Iranian civilian.
The crisis ended with the signing of the Algiers Accords in Algeria on January 19, 1981.
April 1980: The end of diplomatic relations
The United States end diplomatic relations with Iran, a break which has yet to be restored.
1983: Hizbollah bombings
United States implicates Hizbollah, an Iranian movement formed at the time of the Iranian Revolution, in terrorist attacks against the US. Attacks included the United States embassy bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 17 Americans, and the Beirut barracks bombing which killed 241 US peace keepers.
1986: Exchange of weapons
The US provided weapons to Iran, reportedly to fund anti-communist Contras militants in Nicaragua to help free US hostages held by Hizbollah in Lebanon. Reagan administration confirmed that weapons had been transferred to Iran but denied they were part of an exchange for hostages.
1988: Iranian Airbus shot down
US Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes shot down commercial airline Iranian Airbus A300B2, killing 290 civilians from six nations, including 66 children. The US says the Airbus A300 was mistaken for a fighter jet that was outside the civilian air corridor and was not responding to radio calls.
April 1995: Clinton administration embargo
A total embargo on dealings with Iran by American companies was imposed by Bill Clinton.
January 2002: “Axis of Evil”
President George W Bush gave his infamous speech describing Iran, along with North Korea and Iraq, as an “Axis of evil”.
The president warned that the proliferation of long-range missiles developed by these countries constituted terrorism and threatened the United States.
2002: Uranium development
Iranian opposition group reveals that Iran is developing nuclear facilities including a uranium enrichment plant at Natanz and a heavy water reactor at Arak. The US accuses Iran of a clandestine nuclear weapons programme, which Iran denied.
August 2005: Ahmadinejad becomes president
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad voted to become Iran's president
August 2006: UN debate invite turned down
Ahmadinejad invite to President Bush to a debate at the UN General Assembly was rejected by the White House.
September 2006: Financial sanctions
US government imposed sanctions on Bank Saderat Iran barring it from direct or indirect dealings with American financial institutions due to its reported connections with Hizbollah. Further sanctions on the financial sector were imposed by the US and EU in 2012 over Iran’s nuclear development.
2010: Walk out at UN speech
During a 2010 speech to the UN, Ahmadinejad sparks walkouts after he claims that most people believe the US government were behind the 9/11 attacks.
2013: First phone call between US and Iranian heads of state for 30 years
Iran's new President, Hassan Rouhani, held a phone call with President Barack Obama on a trip to the UN forum in New York – the first conversation between US and Iranian heads of state for 30 years. The US president said they both had expressed their determination to solve the long-running dispute over Iran's nuclear programme.

Washington and Tehran are showing keen interest in each other exhort that both and other Middle East leaders can reach on a deal which can serve everyone's purpose.

Except the timeline views are of my own based on recent developments on US-Iran Nuclear deal.

Actually lows and highs in the Iran-US relations started back in 1953 when American-English military coup took place in order to topple Iranian elected government of Mosadegh that was seen as a danger that put their interests in jeopardy due to nationalizing Iran oil industry .... which ended in restoring Shah: