Tensions between the US and Iran hit a boiling point this month, but they’ve been simmering for decades. It’s a long and complicated history -- let’s start in 1951 -- when tensions between Iranians and foreign powers influencing the country first started.
April: US labels IRGC a terrorist organizationPresident Trump announces that the US will formally designate the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps, Tehran’s most powerful military institution, as a
. The move is unprecedented, marking the first time that the US designated a part of another government as a terror group. Iran responds by declaring the US a “state sponsor of terrorism.”AFP via Getty Imagesin the Persian Gulf and oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, as well as the downing of a US drone, which Washington and its allies blame on Iran.
After the US imposes several rounds of sanctions on Iran that were originally lifted under the Iran nuclear deal, Iran announces it will of low-grade uranium. This breaks the stockpile limit it agreed to in 2015, and brings the country one step closer to being able to build a nuclear bomb.Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images
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