Iran-U.S. Relations

About this Project

The Iran-U.S. Relations Project promotes the multinational, multi-archival exploration of “hot button” issues in the two countries’ complex relationship spanning more than 70 years.

Our documentary holdings, amassed from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and archival spelunking on location in Tehran, Baku, Moscow, London and elsewhere, range from a complete collection of the published, shredded files taken from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979, to the thousands of pages covering key episodes from the 1946 Azerbaijan crisis and the 1953 coup to the 1980s Iran-Iraq War, all the way to the current nuclear negotiations.

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"A high-quality, meticulously researched book that sheds much light on a controversy that, nearly three decades ago, shook the American political system to its core."
– The Wall Street Journal

Becoming Enemies: U.S-Iran Relations During the Iran-Iraq War, 1979-1988 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012, 408 pp.)
By James Blight, janet Lang, Hussein Banai, Malcolm Byrne and John Tirman

"For those seeking to understand the roots of modern enmity between the U.S. and Iran, Becoming Enemies is a truly unique and wonderful resource.”
– Karim Sadjadpour, Carnegie

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Oliver North’s Checkered Iran-Contra Record

Washington, D.C., May 16, 2018 – Incoming National Rifle Association President Oliver North’s conduct during the infamous Iran-Contra affair featured a pattern of deliberate...

May 16, 2018

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As of April 10, 2018, Ardeshir Zahedi’s personal papers are open for research at the Hoover Institution. The Shah’s last Ambassador to Washington was a colorful and controversial figure, but he and his father, Fazlollah, were important players in Iran’s political and diplomatic arena prior to the revolution. The papers focus mainly on his second tour in Washington (1973-79) but incorporate some of his father’s records dating back to the 1900s. Here’s the announcement.

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