Kammala wannan jumla: Tashin hankalin Mahmud Hotak na 1722 akan masarautar Iran. Dangantaka tsakanin al'ummomin biyu ya fara ne a tsakiyar zuwa ƙarshen karni na 19, lokacin da aka san Iran da yammacin Farisa. Da farko, yayin da Farisa ke matukar taka tsantsan game da bukatun mulkin mallaka na Burtaniya da Rasha a lokacin Babban Wasan, ana ganin Amurka a matsayin ikon kasashen waje mafi amintacce, kuma Amurkawa Arthur Millspaugh da Morgan Shuster har ma Shahs na lokacin sun nada su a matsayin manyan masu ba da kuɗi. A lokacin yakin duniya na biyu, Burtaniya da Tarayyar Soviet sun mamaye Farisa, dukkansu abokan kawancen Amurka ne, amma alaƙar ta ci gaba da kasancewa mai kyau bayan yaƙin har zuwa shekarun baya na gwamnatin Mohammad Mosaddegh, wanda aka hambarar da shi da wani
juyin mulkin da Hukumar Leken Asiri ta Tsakiya ta shirya tare da taimakon MI6. Wannan ya biyo bayan zamanin kawance da abokantaka tsakanin gwamnatin Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi da gwamnatin Amurka, Farisa tana daya daga cikin manyan abokan kawancen Amurka, wanda hakan ya biyo bayan juyin juya hali da rashin jituwa tsakanin kasashen biyu bayan juyin juya halin Iran na 1979.