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A free Iran will be our ally, as was the Shah's government pre-1979.

Pahlavi Era of Iran

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Pictures of the old good days:

NIDLINK-77 Military Exercise between Imperial Iranian Armed Forces and USAF and US Navy in the Middle East back in 1977...

A USAF Tanker in mid air refueling with an IIAF Tanker

an IIAF KC-707 tanker in mid-air refueling with a USAF F-111 over the Persian Gulf