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The tensions between the United States and Iran are still very much in the headlines.

What's happening now is just the latest chapter in a long and nuanced history between the two

countries.

So today, we're bringing you an episode from our archives.

Part one of this series took us to 1953, and the CIA-backed

overthrow of Iran's democratically elected prime minister. Today, we picked the story back up in 1979.

The secular shaw the U.S. put in place after the coup in 1953 was suddenly facing a major

crisis, an Islamic revolution.

For the last seven days, Tehran and other cities have seen violent clashes between troops

and demonstrators demanding soldiers with rocks and homemade petrol bombs.

Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets.

Inevitably, the result is massacre.

The Shah was forced to flee Iran, and a new leader, a Muslim cleric named Ayatollah Khomeini,

...took power.

... returns to a country teetering on the brink of civil war.

The crowd chanted Allah al-Hu Akbar, God is great,

that raced along with the motorcade,

...