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  • Introduction - Heroes or Hostages

  • Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, University of Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    Heroes to Hostages
    Published online:
    03 August 2023
    Print publication:
    24 August 2023, pp 1-14

  • Summary

    This book brings together diplomatic and social history to narrate the history of US–Iranian relations. It argues that cultural openness and cooperation brought benefits not only to America and Iran, but the region more generally. The rift in US–Iranian relations had to do with more than the Mosaddeq coup or the dramatic shift in Iranian politics after 1979. Iran was confronted with competing nationalisms along its borders that forced Iran to adopt a defensive posture. Finally, America and Iran operated on both elite and non-elite networks that showed the ways in which social divisions affected diplomacy.