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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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| 2009 June 12 |
| | | Iran's declaration that its presidential election has been a landslide victory for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad brings vast crowds of protesters onto the streets | |
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| 2009 June 29 |
| | | Iran's Guardian Council decrees that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election was valid, amid increasingly strong crackdown on any sign of dissent | |
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