Why the US and Iran have been adversaries for 4 decades

Raheb Homavandi/Reuters The US and Iran's decades as adversaries started with the Iranian revolution in 1979 when students overran the US Embassy in Tehran while protesters chanted "Death to America." But the seeds of those tensions were planted decades before when the CIA orchested a coup that ousted an elected prime minister who had nationalized the country's oil industry, to the detriment of Western companies. The Trump era has seen relations between Iran and the US deteriorate rapidly after ...