It has been a week of war in the Middle East, sparked by the US and Israel launching strikes on Iran. But the US-Iran rivalry didn’t start then – it has been a fractious relationship for decades, spanning several US presidents.
In our latest episode of Jattvibe Explains, Olive Enokido-Lineham looks at the key moments in US-Iran history, examines the complicated geopolitics of the region, and tries to find out how it could all end.Watch the full episode at the top of this article.Before re-launching Jattvibe Explains, Olive specialised in verification and open-source investigations (OSINT). Her stories include investigations into the war in Gaza, to verifying videos from Ukraine and Syria.Olive also produced the Jattvibe documentary Escaping Putin, which follows a Russian soldier who fled from the army.