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, Shah Of Iran , shakes hands with a US Air Force general officer prior to his departure from the United States .]] Political relations between Iran ( Persia ) and the United States began when the Shah of Persia, Nassereddin Shah Qajar , officially dispatched Persia 's first ambassador, Mirza Abolhasan Shirazi (ميرزا ابولحسن شيرازی), to Washington D.C. in the mid to late 1800s. In 1883, Samuel Benjamin was appointed by the United States as the first official diplomatic envoy to Iran. Persia and the United States were political and cultural allies until the post- World War II era. Until 1979, they remained political allies, but after a series of conflicts and incidents between the two nations, tension developed in their relationship. EARLY RELATIONS Even before political relations, since the early to mid 1880s, Americans had been traveling to Iran. Justin Perkins and Asahel Grant were the first missionaries to be dispatched to Persia in 1834 via the American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions . The famous Vizier of Nasereddin Shah , Amir Kabir , also initiated direct contacts with Americans when he signed an agreement with the United States to establish a Navy base in Bushehr to help create a Navy force for Persia. By the end of the 19th century, negotiations were underway for an American company to establish a railway system from the Persian Gulf to Tehran . Before the 1950s, Iran and The United States enjoyed cordial political relations. Up until World War II, relations between Iran and the United States remained cordial. As a result many Persian Constitutional Revolution constitutionalist Iranians came to view the U.S. as a "third force" in their struggle to break free of the humiliating British and Russian meddling and dominance in Persian affairs. It is even believed that such appointments were the result of contacts made by the Persian Constitutional revolutionaries with the executive branch of the US government, even though no official documents of such contacts exist. What is certain however is that Persia's drive for modernizing its economy and liberating it from British and Russian influences had the full support of American industrial and business leaders. |
Image:Americans Wearing Persian ClothesjpgAmericans Wearing ''jobbeh Va Kolah'' (traditional Persian Clothes) At The Opening Of ''The
| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Majles" class="copylinks">Majles '', Jan 29, 1924 Mr McCaskey, Dr Arthur Millspaugh , and Colonel MacCormack are seen in the photo |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Morgan_Shuster" class="copylinks">Morgan Shuster and US officials at Atabak Palace, Tehran , 1911 Their group was appointed by Iran's Parliament to reform and modernize Iran's Department of Treasury and Finances |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Alborz_High_School" class="copylinks">American College Of Tehran , circa 1930, chartered by the State University Of New York in 1932 Americans also founded Iran's First Modern College Of Medicine in the 1870s |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Joseph_Cochran" class="copylinks">Joseph Plumb Cochran , American Presbyterian missionary He is credited as the founder of Iran's first modern Medical School |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/American_Memorial_School_in_Tabriz" class="copylinks">American Memorial School In Tabriz , established in 1881 |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Republican_Party_(United_States)" class="copylinks">R ), Representative Bob Ney ( R ), Representative Gary Ackerman ( D ), and Representative Eliot L Engel ( D ) met in New York City with Mehdi Karroubi , speaker of the Majlis Of Iran (Iranian parliament), Maurice Motamed , a Jewish member of the Iranian Majlis, and three other Iranian parliamentarians for informal talks about various issues, taking advantage of a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union {{cite news first=Barbara last=Crossette title=For Iran's Visiting Legislators, A Useful, Low-Key Exchange date= September 1 , 2000 publisher= New York Times url=http://wwwamerican-iranianorg/aicinthenews/For%20Iran's%20Visitingpdf |
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