All of the following describe the relationship between the U.S. and Iran in the twentieth century, except

HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST

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A	The U.S. supported the overthrow of a democratically elected leader named Mohammed Mossadeq in 1953.
B	The U.S. propped up the Shah of Iran in 1953.
C	The U.S. provided lots of military and economic aid to the Shah of Iran and trained his secret police.
D	The U.S. supported the overthrow of the Shah of Iran in 1979.

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -The Iranian Revolution was the Shia Islamic revolution that replaced the secular monarchy of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi with a theocracy led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Detailed explanation-2: -On 16 January 1979, Pahlavi left the country and went into exile as the last Iranian monarch, leaving behind his duties to Iran’s Regency Council and Shapour Bakhtiar, the opposition-based Iranian prime minister.

Detailed explanation-3: -Recent News. Iranian Revolution, also called Islamic Revolution, Persian Enqelāb-e Eslāmī, popular uprising in Iran in 1978–79 that resulted in the toppling of the monarchy on February 11, 1979, and led to the establishment of an Islamic republic.

Detailed explanation-4: -The British and American spy agencies strengthened the monarchy in Iran by backing the pro-western Shah for the next 26 years. The Shah was overthrown in 1979.

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