trust and military escalation. now iran drew worldwide outrage after followers of the storms u.s. embassy in tehran in 1979 and then president jimmy carter tried both diplomatic and military efforts to bring the american hostages home. the hostages were later released on president reagan's inauguration day after more than 400 days in cap captivity and in the late 1980s, the u.s. began protecting kuwait oil tankers and this was operation earnest will and the mission was response to the iran and iraq war when tankers in the region were under repeated attack. throughout the 1990s and 2000 the u.s. imposed additional sanctions, and in 2002 president george w. bush named iran as one of three countries in evil. once in office president obama vowed to begin rebuilding relations with iran and the iran nuclear deal was reached and it required iran to limit its nuclear program for up to 25 years in exchange for sanctions being lifted however in 2018