the economic and industrial war conducted by the United States on Iran for many years, through economic sanctions, the freezing of Iran's assets held abroad since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, amounting to over $10 billion according to some estimates, US meddling in its domestic affairs, especially in the field of human rights, CIA Operation Ajax to overthrow democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in the 1950s, for which the U.S. government apologized in 2000.[25]