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The United States launches airstrikes on facilities associated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in eastern Syria in response to rocket attacks on its military bases.
2023-11-12

U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo announces that the United States and Qatar will block Iran from receiving $6 billion transferred from South Korea to Qatar last month as part of a prisoner swap.
2023-10-12

The United States announces an agreement with Iran to repatriate five American citizens in exchange for access to $6 billion in blocked funds.
2023-08-10

The United States sanctions the Iranian ballistic missile program.
2022-03-30

Kata'ib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia, announces that they have agreed to ceasefire operations against United States interests in Iraq.
2020-10-11

In an act of cooperation that is rare in recent years, Iran releases Princeton PhD candidate Wang Xiyue while the United States releases stem cell researcher Massoud Soleimani in a prisoner exchange. Both U.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif thank the Swiss government for facilitating the swap.
2019-12-7

The United Kingdom announces it is joining a United States-led naval mission in the Persian Gulf to protect oil tankers, following several seizures in international waters by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
2019-08-5

Iran denies that one of its drones was shot down by the United States on July 18, saying all of their drones "returned to their bases."
2019-07-19

The United States reimposes sanctions on Iran after the US pulled out of the international agreement three months prior.
2018-08-6

Iran seizes the crew of two small United States Navy boats near Farsi Island, in the Persian Gulf, after they had allegedly entered Iranian waters. Pentagon spokesman, Peter Cook, told Associated Press that Iran has assured the United States that the crew and vessels will be returned promptly.
2016-01-12