Iran-U.S. Relations

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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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1953 Iran Coup: New U.S. Documents Confirm British Approached U.S. in Late 1952 About Ousting Mosaddeq

Washington, D.C., August 8, 2017 – The British Foreign Office approached the Truman administration on more than one occasion in late 1952 to propose a coup to overthrow Iranian...

Aug 8, 2017

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