Iran was once one of the U.S.'s top allies in the Mideast under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who purchased American military ...

Soon after oil was discovered in Iran in 1908 as the first country in the region, colonial powers, particularly Britain and ...

Tehran and Washington cut diplomatic ties after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the Western-backed shah. Since then, the Swiss embassy in Tehran has facilitated communications ...

He also suggested military action against Iran remained a possibility ... the neighboring Soviet Union. The CIA had fomented a 1953 coup that cemented the shah’s rule. But in January 1979 ...