Understanding America’s complicated relationship with Iran

But before we get there, we must understand something of the history of the relationship between the United States and Iran. Because Americans and Iranians remember the same history very differently. In fact, I think if you ask 10 Americans to name the most important date in U .S.-Iran relations, most will say 1979. The revolution, the fall of the Shah, the hostage crisis. For Americans, that's where the story begins.But for many Iranians, it begins decades earlier. In fact, you could argue that it begins i ...