Slide Show: America and Iran: Six Angry Decades: The New Yorker The Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, and President Harry Truman leave Washington National Airport together as the Shah begins a monthlong state visit. November, 1949. Photograph: AP. Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh rides on the shoulders of cheering crowds outside the Parliament building in Tehran after reiterating his support for nationalizing the oil industry. September, 1951. Photograph: AP Mossadegh on the cover of Time magazine as its 1951 Man of the Year. January, 1952. Credit: Universal History Archive/Getty. An officer wears a photo of the Shah on his hat while being lifted above the crowd outside the Parliament gates in Tehran. March, 1953. The deposed Mossadegh, bundled in a camel-hair coat over pajamas while on trial for rebellion against the Shah, flails a furious fist at the court. November, 1953. Photograph by Carl Mydans/Time Life Pictures/Getty. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Empress Farah Diba with President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon at the White House. July, 1973. Pro-Khomeini students throw an American flag into the crowd gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in Tehran the day after they stormed the compound and took the diplomatic staff and personnel hostage. November 5, 1979. Photograph by Kaveh Kazemi/Getty. A blindfolded American hostage is brought outside the embassy for the international media. November 11, 1979. A caravan of buses carrying the recently freed hostages and their relatives makes its way through the crowd on hand to greet them on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. Fifty-two Americans had been held hostage for four hundred and forty-four days. January, 1981. Iranian protesters burn an American flag outside the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran during demonstrations marking the twenty-first anniversary of the takeover. November, 2000. Photograph by Vahid Salemi/AP. Iranian demonstrators burn an effigy painted with an American flag outside the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran. With tens of thousands of protesters, it was the biggest anti-American rally in years, a show of support for hard-line opponents of President Hassan Rouhani's historic outreach to Washington. November, 2013. Photograph by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP. In this photo released by the Iranian Fars News Agency, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif kisses the head of Armita, the daughter of the Iranian scientific researcher Darioush Rezaeinejad, who was assassinated in 2011. Hundreds of cheering supporters greeted Iran's nuclear negotiators as they arrived in Tehran from Geneva, where they agreed Sunday to a six-month pause of Iran's nuclear program while diplomats continue talks. International observers are set to monitor Iran's nuclear sites as the West eases about seven billion dollars of the economic sanctions crippling the Islamic Republic. Photograph: Fars, Majid Asgaripour/AP. Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif poses with British Foreign Secretary William Hague, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, and E.U. High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton on the third day of talks on Iran's nuclear program. Photograph by Jean-Christophe Bott/AFP Photo/Pool. Iran and the United States, represented by Secretary of State John Kerry, were among the parties to a deal reached in Geneva this past weekend to put a brake on Iran's nuclear ambitions. Almost every interaction between the two countries is marked by the weight of history, from America's role in the coup that overthrew Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, in 1953, and its subsequent support of Shah Reza Pahlavi, to the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in 1979 and the years of acrimony that followed. Here are scenes from six decades of intimacy and anger.