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President Donald Trump’s decision to take military action in Iran has reignited debate over the War Powers Act. Trump is not the …
By Jeffrey Fields, Professor of the Practice of International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Relations between the United States and Iran have been fraught for decades – at least since the U.S. helped overthrow a democracy-minded prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, in August 1953. The U.S. then supported the long, repressive reign … Continue reading “US and Iran have a long, complicated history, spanning far beyond Israel’s strikes on Tehran”