US - Iran - Iraq

Recent events have been portrayed as new, as below shows nothing has changed.
Experiment in Co-operation
Persian Corridor
The story of United States Army activity in the Persian Corridor during World War II has a central theme, supply. Its major development, lend-lease aid to the Soviet Union, grows out of its minor, lend-lease aid to Great Britain in supplying Russia and in preparing against threatened Axis invasion of the area.
The advisory missions, under Maj. Gen. Clarence S. Ridley and Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf respectively, performed two important functions. By aiding Iran's ability to preserve law and order along the supply line, they helped the lend-lease operations. But even more importantly, by demonstrating American concern for Iranian sovereignty, they contributed something new to the historic situation, easing, if only briefly, dangerous tensions.
One thing remains to note before commencing an account of the American effort in the Persian Corridor. It was not like the historical facts of enemy threat, Allied need, American planning, tonnages delivered. It could not be felt, as a swirling sandstorm is felt; it was not visible as were swarms of stevedores unloading ships, or convoys of trucks creeping through snow-choked mountains. It was a thing as intangible as discouragement, as impalpable as heat.
It was a spirit shaped by diplomatists and expressed by the sheer obstinacy of men's guts, a spirit animated by Roosevelt, who "considered Iran as something of a testing ground for the Atlantic Charter and for the good faith of the United Nations."

Norman Schwarzkopf, Sr.
Schwarzkopf Wikipedia
Major General Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf (August 28, 1895 – November 25, 1958) was the first superintendent of the New Jersey State Police, and had investigated the Lindbergh kidnapping case. Born in Newark, New Jersey to German immigrants, Schwarzkopf attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, graduating in March, 1917, two months early because of the U.S. entry into World War I.
He was posted to Iran in 1942 and was tasked with organizing the Iranian police after the UK-Soviet intervention that made Iran an Allied protectorate. His trainees were active in suppressing the Soviet-inspired Azerbaijan (the so-called Marshabad Soviet) in 1946. After World War II, he was promoted to Brigadier General, and in the late 1940's, was sent to occupied Germany to serve as Deputy Provost Marshal for the entire U.S. Sector. Before retiring from the Army in 1953 with the rank of Major General, Schwarzkopf was sent by the CIA to convince the exiled Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to return to power there, going so far as to organize the security forces he had trained to support the Shah. He is the father of 4-star General H. Norman Schwarzkopf.