The 12 months 1953 is among the key dates in US and Iran relations.
It was the 12 months of a British and US-backed coup to overthrow Iran’s democratically elected and secular prime minister, Mohammad Mossadeq.
The US-backed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was restored to energy and went on to rule as an absolute monarch for the subsequent 26 years.
In the most recent episode of Sky News Explains, Olive Enokido-Lineham appears on the complicated and long-standing rivalry between the United States and Iran, tracing the important thing historic occasions which have formed their relationship and the present state of battle within the Middle East.
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