claim: in 2002, "iran was more or less an american ally."
author: andrea mitchell
evidence_1: nov 24, 2014 ... from the 1953 cia-orchestrated overthrow of iran's prime minister to a phone ...  on iraq, bbc news looks at more than 60 years of tricky us-iran relations. ... in  2002 an iranian opposition group reveals that iran is developing ...
evidence_2: mar 3, 2015 ... the united states' most recent round of negotiations with iran over their ...  mitchell said that iran was "more or less an american ally" in 2002, ...
evidence_3: allied forces are then able to occupy iran and transport munitions to russia to  push ... baghdad, under pressure from tehran, forces khomeini to leave, and he  .... nineteen u.s. servicemen are killed and more than 500 others are injured,  240 ...
evidence_4: jan 29, 2002 ... america and afghanistan are now allies against terror. ... iran aggressively  pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an .... we began to think less of  the goods we can accumulate, and more about the good we can do.
evidence_5: prior to the fall of the shah in the late 1970's, iran was an american ally. ...  potential to explode into a more severe conflict with global consequences. ...  share reduced to 40 percent, and french and dutch companies acquired the  other 20 percent. ... in his state of the union address in 2002, president bush  labeled iran as ...