Notable violations of embassy extraterritoriality include repeated invasions of the British Embassy, Beijing ( 1967 ), the Iran hostage crisis ( 1979 – 1981 ), the Japanese embassy hostage crisis at the ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru ( 1996 ), the overrunning of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, Egypt ( 2011 ).

In Iran, the Community of Kabaddi was formed in 1996, in same year they joined the Asian Kabaddi Federation and in 2001 they joined the International Kabaddi Federation.

The Tejen – Serakhs – Mashhad railroad, built in 1996 by Turkmenistan and Iran, has become a vital link of Central Asian, Russian, and European railroad systems with South Asia and the Persian Gulf.

* Executive Orders ( 1996 ) – Saddam Hussein is assassinated ; Iran and Iraq merge forming the United Islamic Republic ; the UIR launches a biological attack on the U. S. using the Ebola virus ; the US launches the Second Persian Gulf War against the UIR and defeats them ; the Ayatollah is killed in a smart-bomb attack by the US.

: Bahrain ( 1996 – 2000 ); Iran ( 1948 – 1951, 1953 – 1979 ); Iraq ; Kuwait ; Lebanon ; Oman ( 1996 – 2000 ); Qatar ( 1996 – 2009 ); Saudi Arabia ; Syria ; United Arab Emirates ; and Yemen.

* The women's record is held by Daniella Jazaeria of Iran, who accomplished 7 hours 5 minutes and 25 seconds on July 12, 1996.

The entity defence minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hasan Čengić, was closely associated with Iran and his dismissal in 1996 was a major US demand / condition for the funding and equipping of the Bosnian Federation Army.

The operation ended officially on 31 December 1996 at the request of the Government of Turkey who wanted to improve relations with Iran and Iraq.

* Foundation for Democracy in Iran ( 1995, 1996 )

In 1996, the United States and Iran reached " an agreement in full and final settlement of all disputes, differences, claims, counterclaims " relating to the incident at the International Court of Justice .< ref name =" ICJ-settlement-agreement ">

Use of grapes is known to date back to Neolithic times, following the discovery in 1996 of 7, 000 year-old wine storage jars in present-day northern Iran.

* Mir-Hosseini, Ziba ( 1996 ) " Stretching The Limits: A Feminist Reading of the Shari ' a in Post-Khomeini Iran ," in Mai Yamani ( ed.

Most recent advocate for Pan-Islamism was late Turkish prime minister and founder of Milli Gorus movement Necmettin Erbakan, who championed the Pan-Islamic Union ( Islam Birligi ) idea and took steps in his government toward that goal by establishing the Developing 8 Countries ( or D8, as opposed to G8 ) in 1996 with Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria and Bangladesh.

He demonstrated that display signals among the Yomut Turkmen of northern Iran helped to secure trade agreements ( Irons 1996 ).

* Iran and Libya Sanctions Act, a 1996 act of the US Congress that imposed economic sanctions on firms doing business with Iran and Libya

Panahi was inspired to make the film when while attending the 1996 Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea he noticed a young girl sitting alone on a park bench staring blankly into space, and realized that he had seen this same thing countless times in Iran and never paid attention to it.

Mesbahi has stated he fled Iran in 1996 after his former co-worker Emami warned him of an assassination order.

Between 1996 and 1998, Welch served in the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, playing an important role in achieving U. S. foreign policy objectives in Iran, Iraq and Libya.

Azizi represented Iran at the 1996 Asian Cup, 1998 FIFA World Cup, and the 2000 Asian Cup.

However, In 1996 when the Sanctions against Iran were imposed, the FBI blocked the plan, and it was forcibly cancelled.

The airline was established in 1996 and is owned by Iran Telecommunications Company ( 50 %) and Islamic Republic of Iran Post Company ( 50 %).

: Algeria ; Chad ( 1960 – 1972 ); Comoros ; Djibouti ; Guinea ( 1959 – 1967 ); Libya ; Mali ( 1960 – 1973 ); Morocco ( 1994 – 2000 ); Mauritania ( 2000 – 2009 ); Niger ( 1960 – 1973, 1996 – 2002 ); Somalia ; Sudan ; and Tunisia ( 1996 – 2000 ), all of which have a Muslim majority.

Murphy was involved in smuggling in huge stockpiles of weapons from Libya in the 1980s and was part of the IRA army council that decided to end its first ceasefire with the London Canary Wharf Docklands bomb in 1996 that killed two men.

It was established in 1996 as Tibesti Air Libya, and was initially based in Tripoli.

* Between 1999 and 2006, during the sessions of the " Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on terrorism in Italy and on the causes of the failure to identify those responsible for the massacres " ( XIII legislature, 1996 – 2001 ) and then of the " Commission of Inquiry on the Mitrokhin dossier and the activity of the Italian intelligence ( XIV legislature, 2001-2006 ), new elements have emerged on international terrorist networks and the Italian secret services of the former Soviet bloc and major Arab countries like Syria, Lebanon, Libya, South Yemen and Iraq.

* Posner, Eric, 1996, " The Regulation of Solidary Groups: The Influence of Legal and Nonlegal Sanctions on Collective Action ," University of Chicago Law Review 63 ( 1 ): 133 – 97

* Economic Sanctions and Their Impact on Development: In co-operation with the NGO Committee on Development ; United Nations Office at Vienna ; Vienna, Austria, 28 November 1996

; Assault on a constable in the execution of his duty: Section 89 ( 1 ) of the Police Act 1996 provides that it is an offence for a person to assault either:

The arctic fox is classed as a " prohibited new organism " under New Zealand's Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 preventing it from being imported into the country.

* 1996 – In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is introduced.

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On September 21, 1996, barely three years after the " Don't Ask, Don't Tell " imbroglio, and further straining relations with the LGBT community, Clinton signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act ( DOMA ), which defines marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman.

In a July 2, 2011 editorial the New York Times opined, " The Defense of Marriage Act was enacted in 1996 as an election-year wedge issue, signed by President Bill Clinton in one of his worst policy moments.

As part of a 1996 initiative to curb illegal immigration, Clinton signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act ( IIRIRA ) on September 30, 1996.

More recently, Bacardi lawyers were influential in the drafting of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act which sought to extend the scope of the United States embargo against Cuba.

In 1996 the US Congress passed the Communications Decency Act, banning indecency on the Internet.

* 1996 – The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U. S. Congress.

* 1996 – The U. S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.

Lucas, through his foundation, was one of the leading proponents of the E-rate program in the universal service fund, which was enacted as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Regulation: The National Communications Authority ( NCA ), an independent regulator, was created in 1997, deriving its statutory framework from the NCA Act 1996.

The resulting " Helium Privatization Act of 1996 " ( Public Law 104 – 273 ) directed the United States Department of the Interior to start emptying the reserve by 2005.

Prior to the implementation of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Act 1996 enacted by the British Parliament, Hong Kong represented its interests abroad through the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices ( HKETOs ) and via a special office in the British Embassies or High Commissions, but the latter has ceased after the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the PRC and became a special administrative region ( SAR ) of the PRC in 1997.

This Act was extended to Panchayats in the tribal areas of eight States, namely Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Rajasthan from 24 December 1996.

* Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ) of 1996 requires the adoption of national standards for electronic health care transactions and national identifiers for providers, health insurance plans, and employers.

* 1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.

* 1996 – The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U. S. federal court as too broad.

With respect to Germany's case against the United States, it held that the doctrine of procedural default was not incompatible with the Vienna Convention, and that even if procedural default did conflict with the Vienna Convention it had been overruled by later federal law — the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, which explicitly legislated the doctrine of procedural default.

In 1996 the United States Telecommunication Act ( in section 251 ) defined the unbundled access as " The duty to provide, to any requesting telecommunications carrier for the provision of a telecommunications service, nondiscriminatory access to network elements on an unbundled basis at any technically feasible point on rates, terms, and conditions that are just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory in accordance with the terms and conditions of the agreement and the requirements of this section and section 252.

Following Wik Peoples v Queensland ( 1996 ), Parliament amended the NTA with the Native Title Amendment Act 1998.