Iran and the United States were close allies until the Iranian Revolution in 1979, when a new regime came to power whose anti-colonial and anti-imperialist stance took aim at the United States for its interference in the region, including the 1953 coup that propped up the regime of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
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