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What Has Gone Wrong Between Iran and the United States? The Iranian revolution, February 1979.Credit.Reuters Buy Book ▾ By Abbas Milani By John Ghazvinian Facts of history are stubborn. Shibboleths of ideology are almost as stubborn. Untangling facts from fictions, platitudes of ideology from the realities of politics (or policies), in the 300-year history of United States-Iran relations is an enormous task. For parts of this history Iran was a coveted prize in the 19th-century Big Game between Russia and England, a pivotal point in the 20th-century Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and for the last 40 years, a stalwart bastion of Shia anti-Americanism and its particular brand of anti-Israeli rhetoric and policy. “America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present” attempts to untangle it all in less than 600 pages of text. ....