General Discussion

... but not in 1953, when the Central Intelligence Agency, quite full of itself after rising from the ashes of the Office of Strategic Services, agreed to help Britain steal Iran's oil reserves for itself by deposing the DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED president of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, because he refused to bend the knee to Britain and cede his country's natural resources to a thieving imperialist nation trying desperately to still embody the once-heralded motto, The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire, by imposing its will on what would have been a staunch Western Ally.
Instead, Mossadegh died under house arrest; and the "Shah" of Iran was installed, despite pretty sketchy bona fides, as the new pet leader of Iran, with the help of his savage SAVAK secret police.
THIS is why, after 73 years, we're still in conflict with our fellow Caucasians, the Iranians: Stupidity, malice, and greed, now writ large by the worst president in our nation's history. They have every reason to distrust the US. As long as we try to maintain the false conceit that "we're the good guys", the enmity will live on.