The Bitter History Between Iran And US: In Photos

Iranain President Seyyed Ali Khamenei speaking at anti-US demonstration after the USS Vincennes shot down and Iranian Airbus. Also shows the US flag and presidential seal stabbed with an Iranian flag pole and banners depicting Ayatollah Khomeini andHossein Ali Montazeri.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has a heavy escort as he enters car to leave the airport in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 1, 1979, after arriving back in the country on a chartered Air France Boeing 747.

US President Jimmy Carter toasts Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran during a New Year's Eve dinner at Niavaran Palace in Tehran, Iran, Dec. 31, 1977.

US President Jimmy Carter prepares to make a national television address from the Oval Office at the White House, April 25, 1980, in Washington, on the failed mission to rescue the Iran hostages.

The entrance to the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, where 63 people are being held hostage, seen in 1980. Graffiti on the wall at left reads: "Dear American minority, brothers and sisters (Blacks and Indians) study the holy Koran and start a revolution against U.S. discrimination. God and Iranian Muslim people are supporting you. Down with Reagan."

People jam into the schoolyard in Tehran to see the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who blesses the crowd, on Feb. 4, 1979.

Remains of a burned-out U.S. helicopter lis photographed in the eastern desert region of Iran, April 27,1980, one day after an abortive American commando raid to free the U.S. Embassy hostages.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, right, shakes hands with the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano, July 2, 2015, as they pose for photos at the start of their meeting in Tehran, Iran.

An Iranian demonstrator holds an anti-U.S. sign during an annual rally in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, marking 36th anniversary of the seizure of the embassy by militant Iranian students, Iran, Oct. 4, 2015.

This image released by an official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, shows President Hassan Rouhani listens to explanations on new nuclear achievements at a ceremony to mark "National Nuclear Day," in Tehran, Iran, April 9, 2018.

Coffins of Gen. Qassem Soleimani and others who were killed in Iraq by a U.S. drone strike, are carried on a truck surrounded by mourners during a funeral procession, in the city of Kerman, Iran, Jan. 7, 2020.

Demonstrators walk on representations of the Israeli and U.S. flags during their annual rally commemorating Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 11, 2024.

Iranian demonstrators hold up posters of the late Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, center and left, who was killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone attack in 2020, and the late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut in September 2024, during an annual rally in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Nov. 3, 2024, marking the 45th anniversary of Iranian students' takeover of the embassy, starting a hostage crisis.

Demonstrators rally outside the White House, June 22, 2025, in Washington, to protest the U.S. military strike on three sites in Iran early Sunday.