Passengers calling for members of their government to step down. However, this is only the latest episode in a very rocky relationship between iran and the United States. Tension between the two countries began nearly 70 years ago in 1953 when the United States and British Intelligence services orchestrated against a democratically elected leader. Reimposing, this was a Pivotal Moment perhaps setting the stage for the next half a century and beyond. Nearly 20 years later in 197, iranians took to the streets demanding democracy, overthrowing the shaw of iran. A group took over the embassy taking 52 hostages and begin the hostage crisis. It took 444 days before all the hostages were released. The hostage crisis marks the end of u. S. iran relations. The 1980s saw the start and the end of the deadly iran iraq war. Iran was further isolated when the community did little to reprimand iraq for killing 150,000 iranians in a chemical attack. The bloody decade cleared out with the u. S. Mistake