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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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| 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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| 1988 |
| | | Ayatollah Khomeini declares a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for his Satanic Verses | |
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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 |
| | | Ayatollah Khomeini dies and is succeeded by Sayed Ali Khamenei as Iran's leading ayatollah | |
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| 2003 |
| | | The historic city of Bam, in Iran, is destroyed in a massive earthquake, with more than 40,000 deaths | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Fundamentalist politician Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is elected president of Iran | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad causes international outrage by describing Israel as a blot that should be 'wiped off the map' | |
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| 2009 February 2 |
| | | Iran launches a satellite into orbit on an Iranian-built rocket | |
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