Following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Iranian Revolution, relations deteriorated.

Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the newly-born Islamic Republic, under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, dramatically reversed the pro-Western foreign policy of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Following the February 2010 capture and execution by Iranian authorities of Jundallah ’ s leader, Abdul Malik Rigi, the group selected a new leader, Mohammed Dhahir Baluch, and confirmed its commitment to continue its terrorist activities.

Following the prehistoric cultural split of Indo-Aryan and Iranian cultures, names descended from * mitra were used for the following religious entities:

Following the successful referendum, both leftists and theocrats continued to use the issue of alleged pro-Americanism to suppress their opponents, the relatively moderate political forces, which included the Iranian Freedom Movement, National Front, Grand Ayatollah Shari ' atmadari, and later President Abolhassan Banisadr.

Following the hanging of two teenage boys, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni by Iranian authorities, Tatchell reiterated his long-standing view that the Islamic Republic of Iran is an " Islamo-fascist state ".

Following the outbreak of the hostage crisis of 1979, immigration officials arrived on campus to interview each Iranian, an event which alienated many international and domestic students.

Following the election, Iranian presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi said that several male and female protesters held behind bars have been savagely raped, according to a confidential letter to powerful cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

Following an interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on German public television in which he repeatedly called Israel " an artificial state " that had been built on the " lie of the Holocaust ", Knobloch called on the German government to publicly condemn the Iranian leader's statements and to isolate Iran diplomatically.

Following this incident, Iran almost went to war with the Taliban regions of Afghanistan but intervention by the United Nations Security Council and the United States prevented an imminent Iranian invasion.

Following Abtahi's record as the first Iranian cabinet member to blog while in office, on August 26, 2009, he also became the first known Iranian prisoner to blog while still at prison.

Following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Reza Shah's mausoleum was destroyed under the direction of Hujjat al-Islam Sadeq Khalkhali, which was sanctioned by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Following the Iranian Revolution, the Interim Government of Iran removed the crown from the naval ensign.

Following his disappointment at the failure of the Iranian operation, Beckwith retired from the Army.

Following the Iranian elections in June 2009, Marjane Satrapi and Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf appeared before Green Party members in the European Parliament to present a document allegedly received from a member of the Iranian electoral commission claiming that the reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi had actually won the election, and that the conservative incumbent Mahmoud Ahmedinejad had received only 12 % of the vote.

On November 4, 1979, militant Iranian students calling themselves the Muslim Students Following the Line of the Imam seized the U. S. embassy in Tehran holding 52 embassy employees hostage for a 444 days ( see Iran hostage crisis ).

Following this match it was decided that Iranian referees would no longer be used for the derby.

Following the U. S. blacklisting of Tidewater Middle East Co., a major Iranian port operator with suspected ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ( IRGC ), Maersk suspended operations at several Iranian ports in June 2011 in order to comply with U. S. sanctions.

Following the 1953 Iranian coup d ' état Al-e-Ahmad was imprisoned for several years and " so completely lost faith in party politics " that he signed a letter of repentance published in an Iranian newspaper declaring that he had " resigned from the Third Force, and ... completely abandoned politics.

Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.

Following the 1919 revolution, he was pressured by the new Soviet government to remove the name of the librettist Béla Balázs from the opera ( Chalmers 1995, 123 ), as he was blacklisted and had left the country for Vienna.

Following the Finnish Civil War and October revolution, Russians were virtually equated with Communists and due to official hostility to Communism, Finno-Soviet relations in the period between the world wars remained tense.

Following the announcement of Kildall's death, Bill Gates commented that he was " one of the original pioneers of the PC revolution " and " a very creative computer scientist who did excellent work.

Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader, a position created in the constitution as the highest ranking political and religious authority of the nation, which he held until his death.

Following the September 1962 revolution, the Yemen Arab Republic became closely allied with and heavily dependent upon Egypt.

Following his escape he made a strong case for defending the Spanish revolution from the Communists there, and the misinformation in the press at home.

Following the outbreak of the Algerian revolution in November 1954 he joined the Front de Libération Nationale as a result of contacts with Dr Pierre Chaulet at Blida in 1955.

Following the Treaty of Versailles, the Kingdom of Württemberg was dissolved but the deposed royal family continued in their possession of their castle in Friedrichshafen, despite a workers ' revolution there in November, 1918.

Following the revolution, changes to governing methods in the former colonies occurred eventually as the new nation organized herself.

Following Robert S. Dietz ’ and Harry Hess ’ articulation of the seafloor spreading hypothesis in the early 1960s and the plate tectonic revolution in the late 1960s the term “ trench “ has been redefined with plate tectonic as well as bathymetric connotations.

Following the industrial revolution it became a major producer of textiles, with silk working in particular coming to dominate the industrial landscape.

German music: Following the 1968 student revolution in West Germany, singer-songwriters playing a kind of expressive, melancholy music with traditional influences became popular.

Following the fall of the Hungarian revolution, Kun emigrated to the Soviet Union, where he worked as a functionary in the Communist International bureaucracy.

Following the 15 April air attacks on Cuban airfields, he declared the revolution " Marxist-Leninist ".

* Following the October revolution, the Bolsheviks engaged at various times in alliances with the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, certain anarchists, and various non-Russian ethnic nationalist groups, against the White movement, Right Socialist-Revolutionaries, and other anarchist and ethnic nationalist groups.

Following the revolution of February 1917 the Russian monarchy was swept from power and replaced by a Provisional Government whose members were drawn from various liberal and left wing political parties.

Following the Russian revolution of 1917, she returned to the school as a teacher in 1921, although it had by then been re-established as the Leningrad Choreographic School by the Soviet government.

Following Jewish emancipation after the French revolution, Jewish communities chose the Star of David to represent themselves, comparable to the cross used by most Christians.

Following the revolution in 1809 he became a member Government and, in the following year, received a promotion to Rear Admiral.

Following the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Hosni Mubarak, who held office from 14 October 1981 until 11 February 2011, was forced to resign following calls for his removal from office.

Following Jewish emancipation after the French revolution, Jewish communities chose the Star of David as their symbol.

Following the events of the revolution, Marxist guerrillas and federalist parties revolted in some regions comprising Khuzistan, Kurdistan and Gonbad-e Qabus, which resulted in fighting between them and revolutionary forces.

Following the 2011 Egyptian revolution, on 13 June 2011 the Wafd Party announced its alliance ( the National Democratic Alliance for Egypt ) with the Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, to present a joint list of candidates for the 2011 parliamentary election.