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Later Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei assumes office as the President of Iran under Supreme Leader Khomenei. 1988: 20 August: The Iran–Iraq War ends in a stalemate. The Iran–Iraq War was the deadliest conventional war ever fought between regular armies of developing countries. [14]
Leader of the Revolution: 37 Ruhollah Khomeini: 1900-1989 5 February 1979: 3 December 1979 Independent . Supreme Leader of Iran (37) Ruhollah Khomeini: 1900-1989 3 December 1979: 3 June 1989: Independent . 38 Ali Khamenei: 1939–present 4 June 1989: Incumbent Independent [b].
The Persian campaign or invasion of Iran (Persian: اشغال ایران در جنگ جهانی اول) was a series of military conflicts between the Ottoman Empire, British Empire and Russian Empire in various areas of what was then neutral Qajar Iran, beginning in December 1914 and ending with the Armistice of Mudros on 30 October 1918, as part of the Middle Eastern Theatre of World War I.
The weak economic state of Iran put Ahmad Shah and his government at the mercy of foreign influence; they had to obtain loans from the Imperial Bank of Persia. [clarification needed] Furthermore, under the Anglo-Persian Agreement, Iran received only a small fraction of the income generated by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. On the other hand ...
The establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran led to the restructuring of its political system, with Ayatollah Khomeini as the Supreme Leader. Iran's foreign relations have been shaped by the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988), ongoing tensions with the United States, and its nuclear program, which has been a point of contention in international ...
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution, (who was a child at the time of the Constitutional Revolution) and theorized that until the return of the Hidden Imam, Islamic jurists should rule Iran, asserted that decades after the collapse of the revolution, that the constitution of 1906 was the work of (Iranian ...
Iran was reunified by the Qajar dynasty (1789–1925), which was followed by the Pahlavi dynasty (1925–1979), the last imperial dynasty of Iran. Since the revolution in 1979, Iran has been ruled by theocratic supreme leaders.
Since the Safavid era, Mamâlek-e Mahruse-ye Irân (Guarded Domains of Iran) was the common and official name of Iran. [21] [22] The idea of the Guarded Domains illustrated a feeling of territorial and political uniformity in a society where the Persian language, culture, monarchy, and Shia Islam became integral elements of the developing national identity. [23]