* 1982 – Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, Iranian basketball player ( d. 2007 )

In June 1982, Saddam Hussein ordered most of the Iraqi units to withdraw from Iranian territory ; after that time, the Baathist government tried to obtain a cease-fire based on a return of all armed personnel to the international borders that prevailed as of September 21, 1979.

* 1982 – Iranian diplomats kidnapping ( 1982 ): four Iranian diplomats are kidnapped by Lebanese militia in Lebanon.

* 1982 – Mohammad Keshavarz, Iranian futsal player

The intervention, along with other events, such as the Iranian revolution and the US hostage stand-off that accompanied it, the Iran – Iraq War, the 1982 Lebanon War, the escalating tensions between Pakistan and India, contributed to making the Middle East and South Asia extremely violent and turbulent regions during the 1980s.

* Iranian diplomats kidnapping ( 1982 )

The Iranian representative to the United Nations tried several times, albeit unsuccessfully, between 1982 and 1984 to convince the United Nations diplomatic community that the Bahá ' í Faith is a politicized organization with a record of criminal activism against the Iranian government.

Future Shop was founded in 1982 by Iranian entrepreneur Hassan Khosrowshahi, who left Iran to settle in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to start a retail business.

Based at Baalbek in the Beqaa valley, the group aligned 200 Lebanese Shiite militants financed by Iran and trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards ’ contingent previously sent by Ayatollah Khomeini to fight the June 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

In January 1982 Amol was the site of a failed armed insurrection against Iran's Islamist government by Sarbedaran, the armed wing of the Union of Iranian Communists.

Among the books he criticizes, Foss notes that the book written in Turkey by Cemal Anadol and titled 1982: the Armenian file in the light of history by Cemal Anadol claims the Iranian Scythians and Parthians as Turks.

* Saeid Ebrahimi ( born 1982 ), Iranian wrestler

* Roy Mottahedeh, ' 57, Iranian / Middle Eastern scholar, 1982 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship

After the Iraqi invasion of Iran in September 1980, Yazdi fully supported the Iranian war effort against the invasion, but opposed the continuation of the war after the Iranian victory in Khorramshahr in 1982.

Sadegh Ghotbzadeh () ( Born in 1936 – September 15, 1982 ) was a close aide of Ayatollah Khomeini during his 1978 exile in France, and Iranian Foreign Minister ( November 30, 1979 – August, 1980 ) during the Iran hostage crisis following the Iranian Revolution.

Thompson's 13 goals broke the previous record of 7 goals, which was jointly held by another Australian, Gary Cole, who scored seven goals against Fiji in the 1982 World Cup qualification on 14 August 1981, and Iranian Karim Bagheri, who also scored seven goals against Maldives in the 1998 World Cup qualification on 2 June 1997 .< ref >

At the age of twenty Panahi was drafted into the Iranian army and served in the Iran – Iraq War, working as an army cinematographer from 1980 until 1982.

Ahdout was born in Santa Monica, California to Yahya Ahdout and Jacqueline Hayempour, Iranian Jews who left Iran to go to the U. S. with their baby daughter ( J. Ahdout's older sister ) in 1982 via Pakistan to Israel.

* Rupert Peyton ( 1899 – 1982 ), former state representative from Caddo Parish ; Bossier Parish native who attended Plain Dealing High School

On 22 November 2011, Simple Minds announced an exclusive 16-date European tour entitled " 5X5 Live " to begin in Portugal on 14 February and to end in Ireland on 4 March 2012 ( including four intimate UK venues on 24 and 25 February and on 2 and 3 March 2012 ) during which the band would perform for the first time 5 songs from each of their first 5 albums released from 1979 to 1982 representative of the post-punk period with the birth of the new wave electro scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The series then grew into a competition with national representative sevens sides competing, and with this growth, the tournament moved to the Hong Kong Stadium in 1982.

Before serving as president, Khatami had been a representative in the parliament from 1980 to 1982, supervisor of the Kayhan Institute, Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance ( 1982 – 1986 ), and then for a second term from 1989 to May 24, 1992 ( when he resigned ), the head of the National Library of Iran from 1992 to 1997, and a member of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution.

Among them, Nomad ( 1982, directed by Patrick Tam Kar-ming ) is widely considered by film critics as representative of Hong Kong " New Wave " films.

He then went further, winning in the 1972 federal election a seat in the House of Commons as the Liberal Party representative for Westmorland-Kent, paving the way for his appointment as the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans in the Cabinet chaired by Trudeau ; LeBlanc served in this position for most of the period between 1974 and 1982, making him Canada's longest-serving fisheries minister.

" In 1982, he was elected Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, a national representative body for Canadian aboriginals.

Further political instability rocked the nation when Luis García Meza was forced to resign, and in 1982 the left wing Democratic and Popular Union ( Unidad Democrática y Popular-UDP ) took power in representative democratic elections, with Hernán Siles Zuazo becoming president.

Leonid Brezhnev, its foremost representative, died in 1982 aged 75, but had suffered a heart attack in 1975, after which generalized arteriosclerosis set in, so that he was progressively infirm and had trouble speaking.

* In the 1982 TV special " Rap's Hawaii ", comedian Rap Reiplinger portrayed Willy Maunawili an " independent republicrat candidate for representative ".

Elected representative on the Welsh Executive of the Labour Party from 1981 to 1982 and from 1986 to 1989.

He rose to speaker of the National Assembly in 1978, and in 1982 he became representative for the Slovene Communists in the League of Communists of Yugoslavia's Central Committee in Belgrade.

* Veronica Grace Boland ( 1899 – 1982 ), American politician from Pennsylvania ; U. S. representative 1942 – 43

In response, the NIB attempted to transform itself into a truly representative body, and changed its name to the Assembly of First Nations in 1982.

After making several country league representative teams, Ablett was recruited by the Hawthorn Football Club from Drouin and made his professional senior debut in the 1982 season.

Istook also was director of the Oklahoma State Alcoholic and Beverage Control Board ( 1977 – 1978 ), was legal counsel to popular Oklahoma Governor David L. Boren ( 1978 ), and was a member of the board of the Oklahoma County metropolitan library system ( 1982 – 1986 ), chairman of the Warr Acres city council ( 1982 – 1986 ), director of the Warr Acres Chamber of Commerce, and an Oklahoma state representative 1987 – 1993.

In 1982 Shafaq was unique representative of Aghdam in football.

She was also a congressional representative to the Kyoto Protocol on global climate change and a Harvard fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government " The Politics of Alternative Energies ", in the fall of 1982.

Arakawa signed the document the next day, and, on February 1, 1982, Yamauchi persuaded the Coleco representative in Japan to sign without running the document by the company's lawyers.

Khoeiniha had been earlier appointed as the supervisor and personal representative of Ayatollah Khomeini for Hajj affairs, but had been expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1982.

His technical assignments included: scientific equipment operator for high altitude research on the WB-57F aircraft ( 1980 – 1981 ); astronaut medical support for the first four Shuttle missions ( 1980 – 1982 ); astronaut office representative for Extravehicular Mobility Unit ( spacesuit ) and Extravehicular Activity ( EVA ) procedures and development, including thermal vacuum testing of the suit ( 1981 – 1984 ); astronaut office representative for the Payload Assist Module ( PAM-D ) procedures and development ( 1982 – 1983 ); astronaut office representative for Shuttle Mission Simulator ( SMS ) development ( 1983 ); support crewman for STS-8 ; CAPCOM for STS-8 and STS-9 ; Remote Manipulator System ( RMS ) hardware and software development team ( 1983 ); Manned Maneuvering Unit ( MMU ) development team ( 1983 ); Deputy Director of NASA Government-furnished and Contractor-furnished Equipment ( 1982 – 1983 ); Chief of Astronaut Public Appearances ( 1985 – 1987 ); Head, Astronaut Office Space Station Manned Systems Division, and Health Maintenance Facility ( 1987 – 1989 ); Astronaut Office representative on space crew selection and retention standards for Space Station ( 1989 – 1991 ).

* 1982 – Michael Guy Chislett, Australian-American guitarist ( The Academy Is ... and Hillsong United )

Morita was awarded the Albert Medal by the United Kingdom's Royal Society of Arts in 1982, the first Japanese to receive the honor.

The case was heard on October 12, 1982, and on May 24, 1983, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled against Bob Jones University in Bob Jones University v. United States ( 461 U. S. 574 ).

The United States provided emergency humanitarian aid and economic assistance to Cape Verde in the period immediately following Cape Verde's independence, as well as after natural disasters, including a hurricane that struck the island of Brava in 1982, and after a severe volcanic eruption on Fogo in 1995.

Category: 1982 establishments in the United Kingdom

A checkpoint manned by the Lebanon | Lebanese army and United States Marine Corps | US Marines, 1982.

* 1982 – In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.

In the 1980s in the United States, namely in New York ( Deprogramming Bill, 1981 ), Kansas ( Deprogramming Bill, 1982 ), and Nebraska ( conservatorship legislation for 1985 ), lawmakers unsuccessfully attempted to legalize involuntary deprogramming.

* " The First Reactor: 40th Anniversary Commemorative Edition ", United States Department of Energy, ( December 1982 ).

EFTPOS technology originated in the United States in 1981 and was rolled out in 1982.

* 1885 – Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States, wife of President Harry S. Truman ( d. 1982 )

In November 1982, Hoxha announced that Shehu had been a foreign spy working simultaneously for the United States, British, Soviet, and Yugoslav intelligence agencies in planning the assassination of Hoxha himself.

Similarly, it rejected a July 1982 United Nations ( UN ) Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire.

UN: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ( 1982 ).

In the early 1980s, Jarmusch was part of a revolving lineup of musicians in Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day project, and later became the keyboardist and one of two vocalists for The Del-Byzanteens, a No Wave band whose sole LP Lies to Live By was a minor underground hit in the United States and Britain in 1982.

* 1982 – The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street.

* 1982 – " Cold Sunday ": in numerous cities in the United States temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years.

Robinson has also been honored by the United States Postal Service on three separate postage stamps, in 1982, 1999, and 2000.

In March 1982, the U. S. government prohibited imports of Libyan crude oil into the United States

On January 7, 1982, brothers Karl and Walter Bernhard LaGrand bungled an armed bank robbery in Marana, Arizona, United States, killing a man and severely injuring a woman in the process.

* 1982 – Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.

* The Conch Republic, which began in 1982 as a protest by residents and business owners in the Florida Keys against a United States Border Patrol roadblock.

During the United States v. Sun Myung Moon in 1982, federal prosecutors argued that the word " Moonie " be banned during the jury selection process because they said it was considered " a negative term ," and prejudicial in nature.

During the re-ignition of Cold War tensions in 1982, the U. S. Congress during Reagan Administration established the Baltic Freedom Day to be remembered every June 14 in the United States.

* 1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio.