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From the oil concessions of 1901 to the standoffs of today — eleven episodes on how Iran and the United States went from allies to adversaries: Mosaddegh and the 1953 coup, the Shah's fall, the hostage crisis, Iran-Contra, Stuxnet, the nuclear deal and its collapse. Built on the declassified record. Narrated by AI voices from sourced, human-reviewed research.
Unknown Host hosts Iran & America: A Century and Counting.
In February 2026, decades of failed diplomacy ended in open war: roughly 900 strikes in twelve hours, a Supreme Leader killed, and oil past $100 a barrel. The finale covers the 2026 war in a strictly sober, factual regis
Painstakingly built, then torn up. How the 2015 nuclear deal came together — and how its collapse pushed the two countries to the brink of war. Episode 10 tells the deal's whole arc. A secret Oman channel and the first p
A piece of code physically destroyed thousands of Iranian centrifuges — opening the age of digital sabotage and reshaping the whole nuclear standoff. Episode 9 focuses on Stuxnet: the covert U.S.–Israeli cyber campaign t
Iran quietly helped the U.S. after 9/11 — then got branded part of an "Axis of Evil." Then a secret enrichment site blew the nuclear crisis wide open. Episode 8 traces how the nuclear standoff opened. Post-9/11 cooperati
After Khomeini's death, a reformist president reached out with a "Dialogue Among Civilizations." So why couldn't Washington and Tehran turn a thaw into a deal? Episode 7 explains the 1990s in a measured tone. The Clinton
Secret arms sales, a naval war in the Persian Gulf, and a civilian airliner shot from the sky with 290 people aboard. The decade that hardened the enmity. Episode 6 covers a violent decade soberly. In the Iran–Contra aff
Did Reagan's 1980 campaign secretly signal Tehran to hold the hostages until after the election? It's a serious allegation — and, crucially, an unproven one. Episode 5 handles a genuinely contested story with care. Carte
A short symbolic protest became a 444-day crisis — and the lever clerics used to seize a revolution and brand their rivals as American agents. Episode 4 narrates 1979 in a documentary tone. Mass strikes break the monarch
The coup put a king back on his throne for 26 years. What did U.S.-backed rule build in Iran — and what did it break? Episode 3 examines the Shah's reign in a sober register: the genuine modernization of the 1963 "White
Truman said no. Eisenhower said yes. In a few days of August 1953, the CIA helped topple Iran's elected prime minister — and reset how Iranians saw America. Episode 2 walks carefully through the coup using the declassifi
In 1945, many Iranians saw the United States as the friend who helped push the old empires out. How did that trust begin — and why did it start to crack over oil? This first episode of Iran & America: A Century and Count
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