US-Iran Relations From 1953 Coup to 2023 Prisoner Swap Deal

The United States and Iran on Monday carried out a prisoner swap agreement that included freeing five Americans. In August, Tehran and Washington agreed to free five U.S. citizens in exchange for the transfer of $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets in South Korea to banks in Qatar and the release of a similar number of Iranians held in the United States. The deal would remove a major irritant between Iran and the U.S., whose animosity dates back to the Central Intelligence Agency's orchestration of the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, in 1953 and restoration of the shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who became a staunch U.S. ally. Following is a ch
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