Ex Trump Pentagon Chief on Iran: 'We Seem to be on Our Back Foot' The recent tensions between the United States and Iran have brought into sharp focus their decades long history.
The 1979 Iranian Revolution, which ousted pro Western Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and established an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Khomeini, crystallized the new regime's anti American stance in the storming of the American embassy in Tehran.
This led to the longest hostage crisis in modern history.