Newly declassified filesreveal that the British government offered immediate support to the US and assisted in the cover-up of the downing of an Iranian passenger plane in 1988that killed all the 290 people on board. On July 3, 1988, the USS Vincennes fired two missiles at the Iran Air Flight 655, which was flying over the Hormuz Strait from the ...

From the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of Iran's prime minister in 1953 to Friday's phone call between Presidents Obama and Rouhani, BBC News looks at 60 years of tricky relations between Iran and the US.   1953: Overthrow of Mossadeq US and British intelligence agencies orchestrate a coup to oust Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister,...