Tehran: Timeline

1943   World War II: Tehran Conference - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill Winston Churchill

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 and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin

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 meet in Tehran to discuss war strategy (on November 30 they established an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe Europe

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 codenamed Operation Overlord).

1971   Representatives of 23 western oil companies begin negotiations with OPEC OPEC

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 in Tehran to stabilize oil Petroleum

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 prices. February 14 they sign a treaty with six Persian Gulf Persian Gulf

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 countries.

1978   The Rex Cinema catches fire in Tehran - 477 dead.

1978   Rioters sack the British Embassy in Tehran.

1979   Ayatollah Ayatollah

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 Ruhollah Khomeini Ruhollah Khomeini

[i] [[Islam|Muslim]... 

 returns to Tehran, Iran Iran

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 after nearly 15 years of exile.

1979   Iran hostage crisis Iran hostage crisis

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 begins: 3000 Iran Iran

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ian radicals, mostly students, invade the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). They demand that the United States United States

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 send the former Shah back to Iran Iran

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 to stand trial.

1979   Iran hostage crisis Iran hostage crisis

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: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, U.S. President Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter

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 orders a halt to all oil Petroleum

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 imports into the United States United States

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 from Iran Iran

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.

1979   Iran hostage crisis Iran hostage crisis

The Iran hostage crisis was a 444-day period, during which student proxies of the new Iranian regime [i] ... 

: Iran Iran

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ian leader Ruhollah Khomeini Ruhollah Khomeini

[i] [[Islam|Muslim]... 

 orders the release of 13 female and black American United States

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 hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

1980   Six American United States

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 diplomats Diplomacy

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, posing as Canadians Canada

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, manage to escape from Tehran, Iran Iran

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 as they board a flight to Zurich, Switzerland Switzerland

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 and thereby end the Canadian caper operation.

1980   The International Court of Justice International Court of Justice

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 calls for the release of U.S. Embassy hostages in Tehran.

2005   Around 59 people are killed and 200 injured in a fire at a mosque in Tehran, Iran Iran

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. is intended to cut global Earth

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 emissions of greenhouse gases.]]

2005   Iran Iran

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ian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for Israel Israel

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 to be "wiped off the map" at "World Without Zionism" conference in Tehran, Iran, and condemns the peace process.

2005   An Iran Iran

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ian C-130 Hercules airplane crashes into a ten-story building in a civilian area of Tehran, the capital of Iran Iran

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, killing all 94 people aboard and 34 residents of the building (a total of 128).

2005   An industrial action by bus drivers in Tehran leads to the arrest of Mansour Osanlou and several other union activists.