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| Decades Of Bad Blood Between Us And Iran | |
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| abuturab82 | May 28 2007, 12:02 PM Post #1 |
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Decades of bad blood between US and Iran Published: 5/28/2007 TEHRAN - Iran and the United States held their highest-level direct official talks in 27 years in Baghdad on Monday in a rare contact between the two foes. Washington froze ties with the Islamic republic in 1980 but relations have not always been so frigid. In the later years of the Qajar monarchy after the constitutional revolution in 1906, the United States was often seen as a lesser evil compared with the "great game" powers of Britain and Russia. But the events of 1953 which saw the CIA overthrow Iran's elected prime minister left a scar that remains to this day. - August 1953: Iran's nationalist prime minister Mohammad Mossadeq is overthrown in a coup engineered by US and British intelligence services known as Operation Ajax aimed at preventing a nationalisation of the lucrative oil industry. Western powers subsequently back the pro-US monarch Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, whose rule is backed up by a widely feared secret police, the Savak. - 1979: The Shah, whose rule had become increasingly dictatorial after the coup, is forced to flee the country. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who played a key role in the revolution from exile in France, returns to Iran and realises his vision of creating an Islamic republic. In November, militant students storm the US embassy in Tehran and take all 63 staff members hostage in a siege that lasts 444 days. All are later freed. - April 1980: The United States severs diplomatic relations with the new Shiite Islamic regime in Iran; they have remained ruptured ever since. - September 1980: Then Iraqi president Saddam Hussein invades oil-rich southwest Iran in a bid to annex the region, sparking a devastating conflict that lasts eight years. The United States tacitly backs the secular Sunni Saddam. - 1986: Despite the mutual enmity, members of the Reagan administration seek to sell arms to Tehran and use the proceeds to help Nicaraguan rebels. The scandal becomes known as the Iran-Contra affair. - November 2001: Iranian and US officials sit together in talks in Germany nover the future of Afghanistan after the ousting of the Taliban. Tehran is credited with persuading its allies in the Northern Alliance to agree an accord. - January 2002: US President George W. Bush identifies Iran, along with North Korea and Saddam's Iraq, as an "axis of evil". - March 2003: The US-led invasion of Iraq brings American and British troops to Iran's borders but also empowers Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority population, natural allies of Iran. - November 2004: Iranian foreign minister Kamal Kharazi and US secretary of state Colin Powell are placed next to each other at a dinner at an Iraq conference in Egypt. They engage in "polite" chatter but no more. - June 2005: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an anti-Western hardliner, wins a presidential election, prompting concern in Washington which is unconvinced by his offer of "a hand of friendship". - August: Bush refuses to rule out using force against Iran, which it accuses of seeking to develop nuclear weapons. Washington has since kept "all options open" over how to resolve the nuclear crisis. - January 2006: Iran says it is resuming uranium enrichment activities after agreeing to voluntarily suspend them, setting off a process that will see it dragged before the UN Security Council for sanctions. - May: Ahmadinejad sends a letter to Bush setting out his vision for ending conflict, in the first official contact between leaders of the two countries since the revolution. The overture is laughed off by the White House. - January 2007: US forces seize five Iranians in northern Iraq. The US says they are intelligence agents, while Iran says they are consular officials. Two more Iranians have since been arrested in Iraq. - February 2007: The United States accuses Iran of arming insurgent groups in Iraq. - May 2007: The United and Iran hold direct talks on the situation in Iraq, in Baghdad, on May 28. The United States demands the release of three Iranians with US citizenship believed to have been arrested in Iran. 05/28/2007 12:40 GMT http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=178415 |
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