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| 1980 |
| | | A US helicopter mission fails disastrously in its attempt to rescue the embassy hostages in Tehran | |
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| 1980 |
| | | Saddam Hussein invades Iran, beginning an 8-year war that will bring massive human cost | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Iran releases the US embassy hostages immediately after the end of Jimmy Carter's presidency | |
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| 1982 |
| | | The Saudi fundamentalist Osama bin Laden joins the mujaheddin in their fight against the Soviet occupiers of Afghanistan | |
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| 1985 |
| | | President Reagan's administration breaks a US embargo with secret arms sales to Iran in return for assistance in the release of US hostages in Lebanon | |
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| 1985 |
| | | Seven groups of Afghan mujaheddin form a united front against the Soviet army | |
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| 1988 |
| | | Ayatollah Khomeini declares a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for his Satanic Verses | |
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| c. 1988 |
| | | Osama bin Laden's involvement in the fight against Soviet forces in Afghanistan leads to his development of al-Qaeda | |
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| 1988 |
| | | The Iran-Iraq war ends with the border between the countries unchanged and more than a million dead | |
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| 1989 |
| | | The USSR completes the phased withdrawal of its troops from Aghanistan | |
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