America's Great Satan: The 40-Year Obsession With Iran.

IRAN-United States relations; IRANIAN Revolution, 1979; POLITICAL stability; FOREIGN relations of the United States; INTERNATIONAL relations

The article describes the U.S. relations with Iran for 40 years, from 1979 to 2019. Topics discussed include how the U.S. consistently portrayed Iran since Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979, reasons that U.S. policymakers have seen Iran as a threat despite the country's paltry conventional capabilities, and threat posed by the U.S.-Iranian antipathy to regional stability.