Relations appear to have improved since March 2008, when Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a two-day visit to Iraq.

An international ceremony and conference were held in Tehran ; the event was opened by the Iranian president and the chairman of the Iranian parliament.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Senegalese counterpart Abdoulaye Wade had a joint press conference along with a close meeting in Feb 2008 in the city of Mashhad, both side pledged to expand the bilateral ties in the fields of economy, tourism and politics in addition to increase the efforts for empowering the OIC.

* June 22 – Iranian president Abolhassan Banisadr is deposed.

* July 28 – In the Iranian presidential election, electors overwhelming elect Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani as President of Iran and endorse changes to the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran increasing the powers of the president.

The concept, which was introduced by former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami, was the basis for United Nations ' resolution to name the year 2001 as the Year of Dialogue among Civilizations.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the first Iranian president to visit Iraq since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.

Iranian minister Reza Saffinia visiting the home of Israeli president Chaim Weizmann, 1950.

Israeli officials, angered by a meeting between Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz and the Iranian president, recalled its ambassador to Switzerland, Ilan Elgar " for consultations " amid ongoing controversy over an anti-racism conference being held in Geneva.

Later in the day, about 40 delegates walked out during Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech after he described Israel as a " racist government " and attacked the creation of the state of Israel.

In February 2008, an Iranian economist, Dr. Farhad Rahbar, a former vice president of Iran and head of Management and Planning Organization of Iran, became the new ( 31st ) chancellor of the university.

In June 2004, the new Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, became the first Georgian politician to have visited the Iranian Georgian community in Fereydunshahr.

When the president of Iraq is assassinated by an Iranian agent, the Ayatollah Mahmoud Haji Daryaei takes advantage of the power vacuum by launching an unopposed invasion of Iraq.

Asgharzadeh later said there were five students at the first meeting, two of whom ( including current Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — although this claim has been denied by the Iranian government — the Iranian opposition as well as a CIA investigation on the matter ) wanted to target the Soviet embassy because the USSR was " a Marxist and anti-God regime ".

In exchange custody of the hostages would be transferred to the government of Iran, which after a short period would release the hostages — the Iranian president and foreign minister both opposing the continued holding of the hostages.

Rothman-Kirk Resolution, which calls on the United Nations to charge Iranian president

* In Tehran, Iran, Afghanistan's ousted president Burhanuddin Rabbani arrived for talks with high-ranking Iranian officials to discuss developments in Afghanistan.

After the election of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Eagleburger seemed to think that Iran was moving in a direction which may at some point call for military action, saying in an interview that while " we should try everything else we can first ," at some point it would probably be necessary to use force to ensure that Iran did not obtain or use nuclear weapons.

The phrase which is suggested by the fake Google page, ahmadinejad is NOT president of Iran, is linked to a video explaining events happening in Iran after Iranian presidential election, 2009.

Former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar addressing a meeting of the World Jewish Congress in Jerusalem, September 2010In July 2011, Olympic news outlet Around the Rings reported that World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder had issued a statement urging IOC officials to ban Iran from participating in the Olympic Games, citing Iranian athletes ' refusal to compete against Israeli athletes.

Various leaders, including the president of Afghanistan, Farouk al Sharaa, the vice-president of Syria, the Iranian foreign minister and the head of Egypt's ruling military council, participated in the funeral.

In 2007, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one of those invited to speak on campus.

" In the same speech, Peres compared Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his call to " wipe Israel off the map " to the genocidal threats to European Jewry made by Adolf Hitler in the years prior to the Holocaust.

In January 2009, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel's invasion of Gaza a massacre " barbaric and inhumane and widely helped by the Americans ".

The decision provoked strong criticism from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while Iranian officials alleged that the actions of the Bahraini match delegate had been politically motivated.

Christian apologist Michael R. Licona compared Doherty's views to the Holocaust denial of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: " Doherty & Associates are baffled that all but a few naïve onlookers pass them by quickly, wagging their heads and rolling their eyes.

The current President of Iran is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has served since the 2005 Iranian presidential election.

Calmy-Rey was widely criticised for putting on a headscarf to meet Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 19 March 2008.

" Speaking on a visit to Malaysia on the first day of the tests, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed the possibility of an attack by the US or Israel as a " joke.

In August 2009, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad commented in a live broadcast on the state radio on rape and torture in the Iranian prisons and said ; " In some detention centers inappropriate measures have taken place for which the enemy was again responsible.

She has secured exclusive interviews with world leaders from the Middle East to Europe to Africa and beyond, including Iranian Presidents Mohammad Khatami and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well as the presidents of Afghanistan, Sudan, and Syria, among others.

Following an interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on German public television in which he repeatedly called Israel " an artificial state " that had been built on the " lie of the Holocaust ", Knobloch called on the German government to publicly condemn the Iranian leader's statements and to isolate Iran diplomatically.

In a 2010 resolution on Iran, the WJC expressed support for international condemnation of current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ’ s repeated calls for the abolition of the State of Israel and his statements questioning the Holocaust.

Further to the WJC ’ s and other international organizations ’ calls, representatives of many Western countries either did not show up or walked out of the conference chamber when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacked Israel in his speech to the Durban Review Conference in Geneva in April 2009 and to the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York in September 2009.

The WJC reiterated its position when in May 2012 Iranian President Ahmadinejad announced plans to attend the London Olympics.

The meeting stirred some controversy in the Jewish world because of Chávez ’ public support for Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his strong criticism of Israel.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during his 2007 speech at Columbia University, asserted that there were no gay people in Iran.

An oil pipeline to pump Iranian oil products is also in the planning stages.

It may be derived from an Iranian ethnonym * ha-mazan -, " warriors ", a word attested as a denominal verb ( formed with the Indo-Iranian root kar-" make " also in kar-ma ) in Hesychius of Alexandria's gloss (" hamazakaran: ' to make war ' ( Persian )").

` Ali ibn al-Husayn ul-Isfahānī (), also known as Abu-l-Faraj or, in the West, as Abulfaraj ( 897 – 967 ) was an Iranian scholar of Arab-Quraysh origin who is noted for collecting and preserving ancient Arabic lyrics and poems in his major work, the Kitāb al-Aghānī.

It is also used in Iranian aash recipes, and is also called sheved in Persian.

It includes most major current languages of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and South Asia, and was also predominant in ancient Anatolia.

This position has been confirmed by the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and is also supported by many other Iranian clerics.

Regional airlines such as Turkish Airlines, Gulf Air, Indian Airlines, Pakistan International Airlines ( PIA ), Iranian Airlines, and others also make frequent stops at Kabul International Airport.

The Iranian tradition was also passed on to Central Asian countries, including Kazakhs, Uzbeks and Uighurs, and there is known as Nauryz.

Large gas finds have also been made, with Qatar and Iran sharing a giant field across the territorial median line ( North Field in the Qatari sector ; South Pars Field in the Iranian sector ).

He also decreed that the Nowruz celebrations for the Iranian year 1342 ( which fell on 21 March 1963 ) be canceled as a sign of protest against government policies.

They were also involved in providing custom ELINT equipment to the Imperial Iranian Air Force as part of Project Ibex and paid bribes to the Shah of Iran in order to secure contracts there.

Iranian researchers have also reported that the venom of M. eupeus has anti-inflammatory properties and is effective as an anti-arthritis treatment in an experimental species model, but the mechanism of action is unknown.

However this turned out to be an imminent failure and a political catalyst, for Khomeini had access to more media connections and also collaborated with a much larger Iranian community under his support whom he used to his advantage.

Iraq invaded Iran, first attacking Mehrabad Airport of Tehran and then entering the oil-rich Iranian land of Khuzestan, which also has a sizable Arab minority, on 22 September 1980 and declared it a new province of Iraq.

These chemical weapons were developed by Iraq from materials and technology supplied primarily by West German companies as well as the Reagan administration of the United States which also supplied Iraq with " satellite photos showing Iranian deployments " and advised Hussein to bomb civilian targets in Tehran and other Iranian cities.

However, a major inconsistency is that Domingo " Ding " Chavez is expressly stated to be 31 years old in this book, and also that he was in fifth grade during the Iranian Hostage Crisis of 1979.

The UAE also has a significant Iranian community.

However, relations have also been tense in recent years, particularly for the alleged Iranian support to Houthi rebels in Yemen, as part of the Sa ' dah insurgency.

The official Iranian calendar ( used in Afghanistan as well as Iran ) also dates from the hijra, but as it is a solar calendar its year numbering does not coincide with the religious calendar.

Shallots are also used to make different types of torshi ( ترشی ), a sour Iranian side dish consisting of a variety of vegetables under vinegar, eaten with main dishes in small quantities.

The Simurgh appears in Iranian literary classics such as Farid ud-Din Attar's Conference of the Birds as instructor and birds leader, and in Ferdowsi's epic Shahnameh ( The Book of Kings ), in which also the Huma bird appears as the presumed " bird of paradise ".

Ahura Mazda ( Persian: اهورا مزدا ; Ahura Mazdā ), ( also known as Athura Mazda, Athuramazda, Aramazd, Ohrmazd, Ahuramazda, Hourmazd, Hormazd, Hurmuz, and Azzandara ) is the Avestan name for a divinity of the Old Iranian religion who was proclaimed the uncreated God by Zoroaster, the founder of Zoroastrianism.