The British government announced a de facto blockade, reinforced its naval force in the Persian Gulf and lodged complaints against Iran before the United Nations Security Council.

Although Iraq hoped to take advantage of the revolutionary chaos in Iran and attacked without formal warning, they made only limited progress into Iran and were quickly repelled by the Iranians, who regained virtually all lost territory by June 1982.

On 21 March 1935, he issued a decree asking foreign delegates to use the term Iran in formal correspondence, in accordance with the fact that Persia was a term used for a country identified as Iran in the Persian language.

There are currently no formal diplomatic relations between Iran and the United States.

The formal Area of Responsibility ( AOR ) extends to 20 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates ( UAE ), Uzbekistan, and Yemen.

In 1935 Reza Pahlavi issued a decree asking foreign delegates to use the term Iran in formal correspondence, in accordance with the fact that " Persia " was a term used by Western peoples for the country called " Iran " in Persian.

Today's traditional Persian music began to develop after the advent of Islam in Iran in the Medieval era, and the creation of today's formal, classical musical tradition is directly linked to the music systems of the Safavid Dynasty.

He married Taheré Khozeimé-Alam ( the daughter of Amir-Hossein Khozeimé Alam of Dezashib who fled to London from Iran in 1979 ) on 24 July 1964 in London, and then had a formal ceremony at Caxton Hall Register Office the following day.

In Iran, during the Shah's period, morning dress was used in formal events of the royal court.

In Iran, Jews and Jewish people in general are referred to by four common terms: Kalimi ( کلیمی ‎), which is considered the most proper term ; Yahudi ( یهودی ), which is less formal but correct ; Israel ( اسرائل ) the term by which the Jews refer to themselves ; and Jood or Johood, a term having negative connotations and considered by many Jews as offensive.

In 1935, Reza Shah asked foreign delegates to use the term Iran ( the historical name of the country, used by its native people ) in formal correspondence.

* January 23 – Iran – European Union relations: The European Union adopts an embargo against Iran in protest of that nation's continued effort to enrich uranium.

Participating in a protest of Germany ’ s meeting with Iran, Ohnesorg was shot when the protest became aggressive.

In a subsequent letter to him, Truman wrote " I think we ought to protest with all vigor ... against the Russian program in Iran.

The following year he was commissioned by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ( the Shah of Iran ), to compose Nuits, which Xenakis dedicated to political prisoners in protest at the Shah ’ s atrocities.

In April 1980, Vance resigned in protest of Operation Eagle Claw, the secret mission to rescue American hostages in Iran.

During the Iranian revolution of 1979, it was shouted from rooftops in Iran during the evenings as a form of protest.

The supporters were calling for the invading troops to move out of Iraq, for the US to not attack Iran and Syria, for the UK government to halt reductions in the civil liberties of UK citizens including the right to protest and a free trial ( which they allege would result from the recent Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 and Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 ), and for a reduction in racism in the UK.

* Iran makes protest and cuts diplomatic ties with Argentina over the arrest in Britain of its former ambassador with the United Kingdom and Argentina for the alleged bombing Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires in 1994 in which 85 people died.

* Over one hundred members of the Majlis of Iran resign in protest after the Guardian Council disqualifies thousands of reformist and independent candidates for parliament, including sitting MPs seeking reelection.

His visits included going to Iran to perform Christmas services for hostages being held in the U. S. embassy during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979 and to Nicaragua to protest U. S. military intervention there.

On June 2, 1967, Ohnesorg participated in a protest held near the Deutsche Oper, aimed against the state visit of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was attending a performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute at the Deutsche Oper that night.

The protest came after the Obama administration had said it was prepared to talk to Hamas and at the same time as it was making overtures to Syria and Iran.

By now expressions of Iranian anger against lack of support for nationalization included a distinct lack of mourning following the assassination of anti-nationalization prime minister Haj Ali Razmara, and a raucous walkout of protest by newspaper reporters when a visiting American diplomat urged ' reason as well as enthusiasm ' to deal with the British embargo of Iran.

" Waters also commented on his Facebook page, " I think it's great that these guys are using the song to protest against the repressive and brutal regime in Iran.

" Marking the end of the " near hegemony of the party over intellectual life " in Iran was the resignation from the party of celebrated writer Jalal Al-e-Ahmad circa 1948 to form a socialist splinter group in protest against the Tudeh's " nakedly pro-Soviet " policies.

Arba ' een has sometimes been used as a political protest, at least in Iran.

Ebrahim Yazdi ( ابراهیم یزدی ; born 4 April 1931 ) is an Iranian politician and diplomat who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan, until his resignation in November 1979, in protest at the Iran hostage crisis.

Nevertheless he was forced to resign one year later after an investigation into the police's role in the killing of Benno Ohnesorg, a 28 year-old German literature student at a protest against the Shah of Iran, an incident that became a turning point in the devolution of the German student movement.

After the film's release a feminist protest group in Iran called the White Scarf Girls began showing up at football matches carrying banners that read: " We don't want to be Offside " The films U. S. distributor Sony Pictures Classics wrote a letter to the Ministry of Guidance in Iran requesting that the film be shown for at least one week in its home country so that they could launch a campaign to nominate the film for Best Foreign Language Film, but the Ministry refused.

" The campaign will include protest films that speak to human rights issues in Iran and throughout the world, six of which are commissioned feature-length, plus twenty shorts.

Several countries once had diplomatic relations with Israel, but have since broken or suspended them ( Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela in Latin America ; Mauritania in the Arab League ; Chad, Guinea, Mali and Niger in non-Arab Africa ; and Iran until the Islamic revolution ).

In 2006, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) suspended all trade made with the traditional caviar-producing sturgeons of the Caspian and Black Seas ( Beluga, Ossetra and Sevruga ), ( Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine ) due to the producing countries ' failure to apply international regulations and recommendations.

Iran originally ordered 150 of the YJ-82 in the immediate aftermath of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, but due to American pressure, the Chinese suspended shipments of the missile to Iran in 1996 after 60 were delivered.

Bahá ' u ' lláh decreed pilgrimage to two places in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas: the House of Bahá ' u ' lláh in Baghdad, Iraq, and the House of the Báb in Shiraz, Iran.

In 1981 Iran supported an attempt to overthrow the Bahraini government, in 1983 expressed political support for Shi ' ites who bombed Western embassies in Kuwait, and in 1987 Iranian pilgrims rioted at poor living conditions and treatment during the Hajj ( pilgrimage ) in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and were consequently massacred.

In October 1970, an Afghan family went on pilgrimage from Afghanistan, where smallpox was endemic, to Mashhad in Iran, triggering a massive epidemic of smallpox in Iran that would last until September 1972.

By late 1971, smallpox-infected devotees on pilgrimage had carried the smallpox from Iran into Syria and Iraq.

This caused outrage in Iran, with the Iranian government calling for the ouster of ibn Saud, and banning Iranians from performing the pilgrimage in 1927.

The site, six kilometres east of Qom, Iran, has been a pilgrimage destination for the Shī ‘ ah for some time.

Sayyid Basir Hindí, one of Sa ` íd Hindí's contacts and a blind man of Sufi background from the Multan area, embraced the Bábí Faith and set out on pilgrimage to Shiraz in Iran to meet the Báb.

In 493 Hijri / 1099-1100 AD he intended again to go on the holy pilgrimage to the city of Mecca and visitations to other holy places and his original native place, Jajarm now in North Khurasan, Iran.

While returning from his second holy pilgrimage to Mecca, Saiyed Abdullah ‘ Zar-baqsh ’ died due to illness in 493 Hijri / 1099-1100 A. D., at his ancestral place Jajarm now in the state of North Khurasan, Iran.