A 2002 article by Michael Rubin stated that in the wake of the Iranian Revolution, the United States sought rapprochement with the Afghan government — a prospect that the USSR found unacceptable due to the weakening Soviet leverage over the regime.

The 1979 ( or second ) oil crisis in the United States occurred in the wake of the Iranian Revolution.

The first version of the modern Iranian tricolour was adopted in the wake of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906.

In June 2009, in the immediate wake of the disputed Iranian presidential election, Iran initially agreed to a deal to relinquish its stockpile of low-enriched uranium in return for fuel for a medical research reactor, but then backed out of the deal.

In fact, this task was given him in the wake of the riots experienced in the province in 1979 to make observations about the effects of the Iranian Revolution and the Shi ’ ite dissention on the security of oil industry.

The Log Cabin Republicans, a conservative U. S. gay group, issued a statement reading, " In the wake of news stories and photographs documenting the hanging of two gay Iranian teenagers, Log Cabin Republicans re-affirm their commitment to the global war on terror.

Published in the wake of the 1989 Iranian fatwa against Rushdie and the Bradford book-burnings that followed, Burgess's letter has been compared to the Essay on Man of Alexander Pope.

Universal male suffrage was definitely established in France in March 1848 in the wake of the French Revolution of 1848.

Hitherto ruled by a monarchical dynasty, Egypt became a republic on 18 June 1953, in the wake of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952.

Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People ( 1830, Louvre ), a painting created at a time where old and modern political philosophies came into violent conflict. During the Enlightenment period, new theories about what the human was and is and about the definition of reality and the way it was perceived, along with the discovery of other societies in the Americas, and the changing needs of political societies ( especially in the wake of the English Civil War, the American Revolution and the French Revolution ) led to new questions and insights by such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu and John Locke.

The Whigs, opposing the court religious policies, argued that the Dissenters should be allowed to worship separately from the established Church, and this position ultimately prevailed when the Toleration Act was passed in the wake of the Glorious Revolution ( 1689 ).

In the wake of the October Revolution, the old Russian Imperial Army had been demobilized ; the volunteer-based Red Guard was the Bolsheviks ' main military force, augmented by an armed military component of the Cheka, the Bolshevik state security apparatus.

The Basmachi revolt that broke out in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917 was quelled in the early 1920s and Tajikistan became an autonomous Soviet socialist republic ( Tajik ASSR ) within Uzbekistan in 1924.

Certain acts of James II were also specifically named and declared illegal by the Bill of Rights, while James ' flight from England in the wake of the Glorious Revolution was also declared to be an abdication of the throne.

The last literary generation of the 19th century signaled a decided break with the past and the advent of modernism-after the wave of optimism in the wake of the French Revolution at the beginning of the century, the lack of progress in implementing these ideals of freedom and brotherhood led to both a skepticism toward the possibility of ever achieving these ideals, and renewed efforts to do so.

Japanese influence extended into Outer Manchuria in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917, but Outer Manchuria had reverted to Soviet control by 1925.

The abbey closed in the wake of the French Revolution ( the government had all French monasteries dissolved in February, 1790 ).

In the wake of the American Revolution, an estimated 50, 000 United Empire Loyalists fled to British North America.

In the wake of the Velvet Revolution, the orchestra reorganised in 1991 and controversially voted to appoint Gerd Albrecht its new chief conductor and to dismiss Bělohlávek.

The French Revolution brought severe religious restrictions in its wake ; it also gave the region a modern administrative system and more political autonomy.

Modern crowd psychology emerged in the wake of the World Exhibition of 1889 in Paris, commemorating the Centenary of the French Revolution.

Rundstedt's Corps disintegrated in the wake of defeat and the German Revolution, but while most officers were demobilised, he remained in the Army, apparently at the request of General Wilhelm Groener, who assumed leadership of the shattered Army.

Media suppression has increased in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia.

In the wake of the French Revolution, the British Government became uneasy about possible revolutionary conspiracies.

Housing associations first appeared in the second half of the nineteenth century as part of the growth in philanthropic and voluntary organisations brought about by the growth of the middle classes in the wake of the Industrial Revolution.

In the wake of the 1905 Russian Revolution and firing, then re-hiring of Rimsky-Korsakov that year, Glazunov became its director.

In part due to the shock and unease felt in the wake of the Cultural Revolution and Mao's death, the second-round of simplifications was poorly received.

The Russian Constituent Assembly was established in Russia in the wake of the October Revolution of 1917 to form a new constitution after the overthrow of the Russian Provisional Government.

In the wake of the play's US success, the composer Stravinsky invited Thomas to write a libretto for an opera.

In the US in the wake of 9 / 11, the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act 2002 ( TRIA ) set up a federal Program providing a transparent system of shared public and private compensation for insured losses resulting from acts of terrorism.

In the rest of Europe, in the wake of the neo-liberal turn in politics ushered in by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and US President Ronald Reagan, union membership has also been declining.

This has been the case in June 2004, in the wake of the US Space Exploration Initiative, and in September 2008 in preparation of the ESA ministerial counsel.

Political rhetoric also underwent renewal in the wake of the US and French revolutions.

Discussing the hypothetical dangers posed to the US in the wake of the 11 September 2001 attacks, Franks said that “ the worst thing that could happen ” is if terrorists acquire and then use a biological, chemical or nuclear weapon that inflicts heavy casualties.

** Cable 243: In the wake of the Xa Loi Pagoda raids, the Kennedy administration orders the US Embassy, Saigon to explore alternative leadership in South Vietnam, opening the way towards a coup against Diem.

In the wake of Operation Anaconda, relations between US and the and UK forces on the ground soured when Stars and Stripes, the magazine for American forces and their families, openly criticized the Royal Marines for returning " empty-handed " from their search for al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters claiming that Britain's contribution to the campaign was " disappointing.

In the wake of the success of " Venus ," all production and co-writing responsibilities for their fourth album, 1987's Wow !, ( UK No. 26, US No. 44 ) were transferred from Jolley & Swain to SAW, under whom the group's sound graduated towards dance-oriented Europop.

Hoon, then Minister for Europe, was being quizzed in the wake of Dick Marty's Council of Europe report which found extensive involvement of European countries, including Britain, in the US kidnapping and torture programme.

** In the wake of the Artsimovich speech, the US and UK begin to consider releasing their own data.

Meanwhile, Seaga's failure to deliver on his promises to the US and foreign investors, as well as complaints of governmental incompetence in the wake Hurricane Gilbert's devastation in 1988, also contributed to his defeat to the popular Manley in the 1989 elections.

In the wake of this success, other nations, specifically the Soviet Union, France, and Great Britain, began developing similar weapons in the late 1960s and early 1970s, while US weapons were refined based on combat experience.

Her last ( US top-40 ) hit, it competed with four other songs created in the wake of the huge fad.

This document reflects the sentiment of the Latino / Chicano youth during an era of a turbulent social climate ( especially in the wake of violence experienced by Latino youth from the US military and police during the Zoot Suit Riots ).

The group was involved in building a number of the major protests against corporate globalization in the early 2000s, and has been active in opposing what it refers to as " US imperialism " connected with the " war on terror " in the wake of September 11th, including the invasion of Afghanistan as well as the Iraq War.

In the wake of these organisational changes, in 1970 Healey became chairman of Jensen Motors with the enthusiastic backing of key US based Austin-Healey distributors.

The incident happened in the wake of the uncovering and expulsion of ten Russian sleeper agents in the US in June 2010, including a young woman who had British citizenship, Anna Chapman.

The Corporate Average Fuel Economy ( CAFE ) are regulations in the United States, first enacted by the U. S. Congress in 1975, and intended to improve the average fuel economy of cars and light trucks ( trucks, vans and sport utility vehicles ) sold in the US in the wake of the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo.

In the wake of the Cold War, the US Army considered new options for the integration and organization of Active duty, Army Reserve and Army National Guard units in training and deployment.

In the wake of the first car races, local kid auto races took place in the US at a very early stage.

After General Charles de Gaulle argued about US-leadership within the NATO Alliance and following the unconditional support entrusted by the US Governments to dubious right-wing military regimes in the name of Communist Containment policy-such as the Spanish Franco and Portuguese Salazar's dictatorships or the Greek Regime of the Colonels, in the wake of the Vietnam War protests, democratic left-wing public opinion in the USA and in Europe raised the controversial question of the MAPs being used as instruments of some form of covert ultra-conservative political US imperialism.

In the wake of the diplomatic row between Israel and the US over Jewish housing in east Jerusalem, Yosef is reported to have said, in a private meeting with Shimon Peres, that " t is not permissible to challenge the nations of the world or the ruling powers " and that Israel should agree to a partial building freeze in east Jerusalem, at least temporarily.