Tehran: When Iran inaugurated the new President of Ebrahim Relisi, recap of the country’s landmark since the 1979 Revolution which overthrew the Monarchy supported by the US and established the Islamic Republic.
After months of protest, on January 16, 1979, the US-backed Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, left the country.
Ayatollah Revolutionary Leader Ruhollah Khomeini made the return of victory from exile in Paris on February 1, ten days later, the Shah government fell.
General radio praises “the end of 2,500 years of despotism”.
A Islamic Republic is proclaimed on April 1.
Radical students brought 52 American hostages at the US Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979, to protest the recognition of the former Shah to the hospital in the United States.
Washington decided diplomatic relations in 1980.
The hostages were only released on January 21, 1981, after 444 days in captivity.
Iraq attacked Iran on September 22, 1980, after the President of Iraq Saddam Hussein ripped the 1975 agreement on the strategic Water Shatt Al-Arabic route.
It triggered a tiring eight-year war which is expected to have hundreds of thousands on both sides.
It ended on August 20, 1988 with a ceasefire that was not ordered.
Khomeini died on June 3, 1989.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the President since 1981, became the highest leader.
Moderate conservative Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was elected president.
Chosen again in 1993, he regulates the relative opening of the government and post-war reconstruction.
Refsanjani’s reformist substitute, Mohammad Khatami, opposed conservative opposition for two provisions from 1997 to 2005.
In 1999, the government faced the biggest protest since 1979, complaining of pro-Khatami students against the police.
US President George W.
Bush said Iran as part of the “Axis of Evil” anti-America with Iraq and North Korea, accused him of supporting terrorism.
Popululul Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected president in June 2005.
During his tenure, Iran continued uranium enrichment.
The western alarm, which suspects Tehran want to produce nuclear weapons, something Iran is consistently rejected.
The crackdown on national protests against disputed re-election in Ahmadinejad in 2009 extinguished the reformist movement.
The selection of Hassan Rouhani as president in 2013 marked the heating of international relations.
Iran reached an agreement on its nuclear program with six world powers on July 14, 2015 after 21 months of negotiations.
This gives Tehran’s help from paralyzing economic sanctions in exchange for the boundaries of its atomic activities.
In January 2016, Iranian regional rivals Saudi Arabia and its allies cut or reduced the relationship back, after the execution of the Sunni kingdom of the leading Shia scholars Nimr al-NIMR.
US President Donald Trump on May 8, 2018, left a nuclear agreement and began to spill unilateral sanctions on Iran.
A year later Tehran began gradually withdrew from his own commitment.
On January 3, 2020, a US drone strike killed Iran’s top Q.
Qasem Soleimani commander in Iraq, raising concerns about direct confrontation after a series of incidents involving the delivery of the bay.
From February 2021, Iran and Israel – collided for years or indirectly in Lebanon, Syria and the Gaza Strip – involved in the battle at sea, accusing each other from a series of ship attacks from both parties.
Former Chief Justice of the Ebrahim Relision won the June presidential election when more than half of the voters moved away after many heavy-class politics were prohibited from standing.
Iran since the Islamic revolution
