Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah na Iran, ya kasance amintaccen abokin haɗin Amurka tun lokacin juyin mulkin Iran na 1953
Ka yi haƙuri. A cikin shekarun da suka biyo bayan juyin mulkin, Amurka ta ba da taimako ga Iran, yayin da Iran ta zama tushen tushen fitar da man fetur. Carter, Vance, da Brzezinski duk suna kallon Iran a matsayin babban abokin kawancen Cold War, ba wai kawai don samar da man fetur ba amma kuma saboda tasirinsa a cikin OPEC da matsayinsa na dabaru tsakanin Tarayyar Soviet da Tekun Fasha. Duk da keta hakkin dan adam, Carter ya ziyarci Iran a ƙarshen 1977 kuma ya ba da izinin sayar da jirgin saman yakin Amurka. A wannan shekarar kuma, aka soma tarzoma a birane da yawa, kuma ba da daɗewa ba ta yaɗu a dukan ƙasar. Yanayin tattalin arziki mara kyau, rashin farin jini na "Farautar Farar fata" ta Pahlavi, da farkawar Islama duk sun haifar da karuwar fushi a tsakanin Iran, da yawa daga cikinsu kuma sun raina Amurka saboda goyon bayan Pahlavi da rawar da ta taka a juyin mulkin 1953.