Iran-US relations explainer

Helen and Alister cooperated on this project: “From Baskerville to the Prom”.

Everyone knows that the relationship between the United States and Iran are complicated and fraught. We created this 4-minute explainer to give a deeper background.

We wrote a short screenplay and used an animation software, called Xtranormal. We have two high school kids arguing about their prom, nuclear weapons, the invasion of Iraq, the 1953 overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq and Howard Baskerville, an American who was killed fighting for reforms in Iraq.

For video, click here 

Sources and futher reading:
Iran-US ties up to 2008
MIT Iran timeline
BBC Iran history timeline to 2012
p://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14542438
Iran-Iraq war casualties
http://www.dupuyinstitute.org/pdf/v2n3.pdf
1953 CIA coup
Howard Baskerville:
http://www.payvand.com/news/09/apr/1175.html