Let’s stop pretending the hostility between the United States and Iran began with angry men shouting “Death to America” in 1979.
The real story starts decades earlier…
with oil, power, and a decision that changed the Middle East forever.
In the early 1950s, Iran wasn’t some theocratic state run by clerics. It was trying—clumsily, imperfectly—but genuinely trying to become a democracy.
