Iran refused to carry out the arrest demanded by the warrant claiming it to be a " Zionist plot ".

On March 2009, Javad Shamaqdari, cultural adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, demanded an apology from a delegation of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences actors and producers visiting Iran for what he characterized as negative and unfair portrayals of the Islamic republic in The Wrestler and other Hollywood films.

The Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line demanded that the Shah return to Iran for trial and execution.

In response Iranian militants seized the American embassy in Iranian hostage crisis, taking 52 Americans hostage and demanded the Shah's return to Iran for trial and execution.

Britain demanded that Iran expel all German citizens, but Reza Shah refused, claiming this would adversely impact his development projects.

In return, the Iranians demanded abolition of sanctions and a US statement that Iran does not belong in the so-called " Axis of Evil.

After the IAEA Board of Governors reported Iran's noncompliance with its safeguards agreement to the UN Security Council, the Council demanded that Iran suspend its nuclear enrichment activities while Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has argued that the sanctions are " illegal ," imposed by " arrogant powers ," and that Iran has decided to pursue the monitoring of its self-described peaceful nuclear program through " its appropriate legal path ," the International Atomic Energy Agency.

After the IAEA Board of Governors reported Iran's noncompliance with its safeguards agreement to the United Nations Security Council, the Council demanded that Iran suspend its enrichment programs.

Iran demanded a revision of the terms whereby Iran would be granted 25 % of APOC's total shares.

She used her new influence to support the Christian minority in Iran, but the political situation demanded that she do so discreetly.

The United States refused to acknowledge the communist regimes in Rumania and Bulgaria ; demanded Russian troops leave Iran immediately and demanded an agreement with Russia over the payment of Lend-Lease debts.

Despite the fact that Tudeh deputies in the Majles had previously vigorously demanded the nationalization of the whole petroleum industry, the Tudeh party supported granting the Soviet petroleum industry in Iran its wishes on grounds of ` socialist solidarity `, ` internationalism ,` and ` anti-imperialism .`

Bush and Rice demanded an international peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon as a precondition to the end of the fighting, and repeated that Iran and Syria must stop funding or otherwise sponsoring Hezbollah.

In May 2008, Boyle offered to " represent Iran in an international tribunal for trying the Zionist regime on charges of genocide of Palestinians ", and reportedly demanded that his proposal be submitted to Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Shortly after his arrival the Russian government demanded his expulsion, and when the Majlis refused to do so, Russia occupied northern parts of Iran.

He demanded the Iran Freedom Movement disassociate itself from the National Front within the hour if they wished to escape retribution.

Ivanković had became very popular in Iran and the public media demanded a contract renewal, but the Football Federation was initially reluctant to appoint him as the head coach.

They are offered on some trains in Japan, Egypt, India, Iran, Taiwan, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Dubai, while passengers in some other countries have demanded their introduction.

The American administration of Harry Truman began to believe this possibility in early March 1946, with the Soviets ' violation of the withdrawal deadline in Iran, and Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, given in Truman's presence a few days later.

In addition, it was at the Potsdam Conference that Truman became aware of possible complications elsewhere, when Stalin objected to Churchill's proposal for an early allied withdrawal from Iran, ahead of the agreed upon schedule set at the Tehran Conference.

#: Allied troops were to withdraw immediately from Tehran and that further stages of the withdrawal of troops from Iran should be considered at the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers to be held in London in September, 1945.

While Iran was the first Muslim-majority country to recognize Israel, the two states do not currently have diplomatic relations with each other, due to Iran's withdrawal of its recognition of Israel.

During that time, Soviet imperialism in Eastern Europe, its delayed withdrawal from Iran, and the breakdown of Allied cooperation in Germany provide the backdrop of escalating tensions for the Truman Doctrine ; the U. S. response has been much debated by historians.

" On 30 January 1946 the UN Security Council approved Resolution 2 concerning the Soviet withdrawal from Iran ; Resolutions 3 and 5 were also approved in April and May.

Iraqi forces were battle-hardened after 8 years of war with Iran, and they were well-equipped with late model Soviet tanks and jet fighters, but the antiaircraft weapons were crippled ; in comparison, the US had no large-scale combat experience since its withdrawal from Vietnam nearly 20 years earlier, and major changes in US doctrine, equipment and technology since then had never been tested under fire.

Google News reprints of the Virgin Islands Daily News ( Feb 17, 1979 ) and Los Angeles Times ( Feb 15, 1979 ) indicate that with the withdrawal of Iran, the secretary-general of CENTO, a Turkish diplomat, called a meeting of the pact's council in order to formally dissolve the organization.

He worked for the withdrawal of Soviet forces in Iran and a ceasefire to fighting in Kashmir.

Unlike Khomeini in Iran, bin Laden has six focuses foreign policy goals: ( 1 ) end U. S. aid to Israel ; ( 2 ) U. S. withdrawal from Arabian peninsula ; ( 3 ) end of U. S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan ; ( 4 ) end of U. S. support for Muslim oppression by China, Russia, India, etc.

When the deadline for withdrawal arrived on March 2, 1946, six months after the end of hostilities, the British began to withdraw, but Moscow refused, " citing threats to Soviet security ," sparking the Iran crisis of 1946.

On December 6, the Iraq Study Group released its Report, which called for conditional phased withdrawal of U. S. troops, a conditional American transition from a leading to a supporting role, and for talks with Iraqi neighbors Iran, with which Iraq signed a security agreement on November 29, and Syria ; Talibani decried the report on December 10.

* Continuing use of a traditional method ( withdrawal ) in a high contraceptive prevalence country, Iran: Correlates and consequences

Ba ' athist Iraq under Saddam Hussein pursued ethnic cleansing or liquidation of minorities, pursued expansionist wars against Iran and Kuwait, and gradually replaced pan-Arabism with an Iraqi nationalism that emphasized Iraq's connection to the glories of ancient Mesopotamian empires, including Babylonia.

Iraqi nationalist and Ba ' athist elements ( part of the insurgency ) remained committed to expelling U. S. forces and also seemed to attack Shia populations, presumably, due to the Shia parties ' collaboration with Iran and the United States in making war against their own nation.

** Kermanshah, Iran, and the Iraqi province of Diyala-construction commenced.

This war had begun in September 1980, when Saddam Hussein sent Iraqi forces across the Shatt al Arab into southwestern Iran.

provided that all ships using the Shatt fly the Iraqi flag and have an Iraqi pilot, and required Iran to pay tolls to Iraq whenever its ships used the Shatt.

* 1980 – Iran – Iraq War: Operation Morvarid – Over 70 % of Iraqi Navy was destroyed by Iranian Navy in The Persian Gulf.

The Republic of Ararat ( Ağrı Province, Turkey ), the Republic of Mehabad ( West Azerbaijan Province, Iran ) and the Kingdom of Kurdistan ( Sulaymaniyah Province, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq ), each of these fledgling states was crushed by military intervention.

Saddam's regime was accused of killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens and committing war crimes in Iran, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia.

In 1975 Saddam negotiated an accord with Iran that contained Iraqi concessions on border disputes.

The result was brutal fighting between the government and Kurdish groups and even Iraqi bombing of Kurdish villages in Iran, which caused Iraqi relations with Iran to deteriorate.

* March – April – Iraqi forces suppress rebellions in the southern and northern parts of the country, creating a humanitarian disaster on the borders of Turkey and Iran.

The central version, commonly called Sorani, is spoken in west Iran and much of Iraqi Kurdistan.

Rashid Ali and the Mufti of Jerusalem fled to Iran, then Turkey, Italy, and finally Germany, where Ali was welcomed by Hitler as head of the Iraqi government-in-exile in Berlin.

With the start of the Iran – Iraq War ( 1980 – 1988 ) following an Iraqi invasion, a second wave of inhabitants fled the city, especially during Iraqi air offensive on the capital.

After the collapse of the Soviet-backed Kurdish Mahabad Republic in Iran in early 1947, Ibrahim Ahmad, previously the Sulaymaniyah representative of the Iranian KDP ( from now on referred to as KDP-I ), joined the newly formed Iraqi KDP.

Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq was founded in 1982 during the Iran – Iraq War after the leading Islamist insurgent group, Islamic Dawa Party, was severely weakened by a government crackdown following Dawa's unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

The Free Syrian Army claimed the Bashar al-Assad regime recruited mercenaries from Iran, Hezbollah militia and the Iraqi Mahdi Army militia during the Syrian uprising.

It has been speculated that besides Iran or Israel, the CIA, MI6, Mexican, Iraqi, or South African governments could have been behind the assassination due to Bull's past ventures.

World crises continued to flare and included the downing of two Libyan Su-22s by American F-14s over the Gulf of Sidra, an Israeli F-16 raid to destroy an Iraqi nuclear reactor, two Iranian hijackings, Iranian air raids on Kuwait, and the release of American hostages in Iran.