Home / World News / How a 1953 CIA-backed coup set Iran and the US on today's collision course How a 1953 CIA-backed coup set Iran and the US on today's collision course Today's Iran-US confrontation traces back to a Cold War coup, oil politics and the 1979 revolution that transformed a strategic partnership into one of the world's longest geopolitical rivalries The hostility between Washington and Tehran did not begin with the present conflict, or even with Iran’s nuclear programme but with roots stretching back to a Cold War coup, and a revolution that reshaped Iran’s political identity. |...