* 1979 – Iran hostage crisis begins: a group of Iranians, mostly students, invades the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages ( 53 of whom are American ).

After the Iranian Revolution and the takeover of the U. S. embassy in Tehran in 1979, Iranians enlisted local carpet weavers who reconstructed the pieces by hand.

Many Georgians or Iranians of partial Georgian descent are also scattered in major Iranian cities, such as Tehran, Esfahan, Karaj and Shiraz.

At that time, the show was called: " The Iran Crisis — America Held Hostage: Day xxx " where xxx represented each day Iranians held hostage the occupants of the U. S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran.

By midsummer 1980 the Iranians moved the hostages to prisons in Tehran to prevent either escape or rescue attempts and to improve the logistics of guard shifts and food delivery.

The Shah left Iran for exile on January 16, 1979 as the last Persian monarch and in the resulting power vacuum two weeks later Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Tehran to a greeting by several million Iranians.

Although the Iranian government prohibited any gatherings of protesters in Tehran and across the country, significantly slowed down internet access and censored any form of media supporting the opposition, hundreds of thousands of Iranians marched in defiance.

On August 1, 1987, a spontaneous demonstration by enraged Iranians ended with attacks on the Kuwaiti and Saudi embassies in Tehran.

The report chronicled gruesome details of the events in 1953: how, by spending a meager sum of $ 1 million, the CIA " stirred up considerable unrest in Iran, giving Iranians a clear choice between instability and supporting the shah "; how it brought " the largest mobs " into the street ; how it " began disseminating ' gray propaganda ' passing out anti-Mossadegh cartoons in the streets and planting unflattering articles in local press "; how the CIA's " Iranian operatives pretending to be Communists threatened Muslim leaders with ' savage punishment if they opposed Mossadegh '"; how the " house of at least one prominent Muslim was bombed by CIA agents posing as Communists "; how the CIA tried to " orchestrate a call for a holy war against Communism "; how on August 19 " a journalist who was one of the agency's most important Iranian agents led a crowd toward Parliament, inciting people to set fire to the offices of a newspaper owned by Dr. Mossadegh's foreign minister "; how American agents swung " security forces to the side of the demonstrators "; how the shah's disbanded " Imperial Guard seized trucks and drove through the street "; how by " 10: 15 there were pro-shah truckloads of military personnel at all main squares "; how the " pro-shah speakers went on the air, broadcasting the coups ' success and reading royal decrees "; how at the US embassy, " CIA officers were elated, and Mr. Roosevelt got General Zahedi out of hiding " and found him a tank that " drove him to the radio station, where he spoke to the nation "; and, finally, how " Dr. Mossadegh and other government officials were rounded up, while officers supporting General Zahedi placed ' unknown supports of TP-Ajax ' in command of all units of Tehran garrison.

Because he was a disciple of Ayatollah Khui, a rival of Khomeini, Muhsini did not have a good relation with Khomeini's entourage, and he was even arrested in August 1980 in Iran, and the offices of the party in Tehran were closed down, after the Iranians claimed he was being financed by the CIA.

Since the cave is situated between the large cities Hamadan, Tehran, and Qom it is a popular destination for Iranians.

The Iranians, demanding that the international community should force Iraq to pay war reparations to Iran, refused any suggestions for a cease-fire.

The Iranians refused to communicate directly with the president, or any other American, so Algeria had agreed to act as an intermediary.

European observers noted that “ most Iranians would rather forego bread than tobacco, and the first thing they would do at the breaking of the fast during the month of Ramadan was to light their pipes .” Despite the popularity of tobacco, the religious ban was so successful that it was said that women in the shah's harem quit smoking and his servants refused to prepare his water pipe.

To manage this new acquisition, the APOC formed a new subsidiary, the North Persia Oil Company, but the Iranians refused to accept the new company, giving rise to a lingering dispute over the northern Iranian oil.

However, Sir Edward Grey, Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, refused to force the Iranians to accept Sa ’ d Dawla as Prime Minister, because of his aversion to the Constitutional movement in Iran.

Iranians have traditionally been highly sensitive to foreign interference in their country, pointing to such events as the Russian conquest of northern parts of the country, the tobacco concession, the British and Russian occupations of the First and Second World Wars, and the CIA plot to overthrow Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq.

Iranians had a special tobacco called Khansar ( خانسار, presumably name of the origin city ).

At the time of the concession, the tobacco crop was valuable not only because of the domestic market but because Iranians cultivated a variety of tobacco " much prized in foreign markets " that was not grown elsewhere.

By January 26 Shirazi issued another fatwa repealing the first and permitting tobacco use, " and Iranians began smoking again .” The fatwa has been called a " stunning " demonstration of the power of the marja ’- i taqlid, and the protest itself has been cited as one of the issues that led to the Constitutional Revolution a few years later.

While Iranians basked in the glory of impeding foreign influence into their country, the tobacco movement had far greater implications than they would even realize.

Historian Nikki Keddie notes that the movement was significant because “ Iranians saw for the first time that it was possible to win out against the Shah and foreign interests … there is a direct line from the coalition which participated in the tobacco movement … culminating in the Constitutional Revolution ” and arguably the 1979 Iranian Revolution as well.

The historical lack of liberalism, symbolized by the rise of radicalism in the Iranian revolution ( both on the left and right ), committed a huge injury to Iranians commonsense ways of political thought and political action, and led to deep confusion about questions of moral responsibility and collective human solidarity.

The assault on the embassy was to occur after eliminating electrical power in the area to disrupt any military response by the Iranians.

In the seventh century AD, the Soghdian Iranians, who profited most visibly from this trade, saw their province of Mawarannahr overwhelmed by Arabs, who spread Islam throughout the region.

The qanat technology is known to have been developed by Iranians sometime in the early 1st millennium BC spread from there slowly west-and eastward.

When Islam was introduced to Iranians, the nobility and city-dwellers were the first to convert, Islam spread more slowly among the peasantry and the dihqans, or landed gentry.

An estimated total of 46, 255 Iranians currently reside in the Greater Toronto Area, 29, 265 in the Greater Vancouver Area, 9, 535 in the Greater Montreal Area, and the remainder are spread out in the other major cities in Canada based on the 2006 Canadian Census.

They would begin to substantially increase both the numbers and the training standards of the cavalry in their employ, just as nearly a thousand years earlier the first Iranians to reach the Iranian Plateau forced the Assyrians to a similar reform.

In the early decades of the 19th century, it became clear to the British that the major threat to their interests in India would not come from the fragmented Afghan empire, the Iranians, or the French, but from the Russians, who had already begun a steady advance southward from the Caucasus.

The British demanded that Dost Mohammad sever all contact with the Iranians and Russians, remove Vitkevich from Kabul, surrender all claims to Peshawar, and respect Peshawar's independence as well as that of Kandahar, which was under the control of his brothers at the time.

The Turks, Iranians, and Indians all had firearms no later than the 15th century, in each case directly or indirectly from the Europeans.

According to Reagan, these Iranians sought to establish a quiet relationship with the United States, before establishing formal relationships upon the death of the octogenarian Ayatollah.

In Reagan's account, McFarlane told Reagan that the Iranians, to demonstrate their seriousness, offered to persuade the Hezbollah terrorists to release the seven U. S. hostages.

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.

By the 8th century first Iranians and then Arabs had imported the craft of papermaking from China, with a paper mill already at work in Baghdad in 794.

* 1982 – Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran – Iraq War.

Many peoples of the Near, Middle East and Central Asia claim Nasreddin as their own ( e. g., Turks, Afghans, Iranians, and Uzbeks ).

He assumed power in 1748 after the leaders of both factions had been killed in battle, but the rivalry continued, with the factionalization working in favor of the Iranians, who occupied Muscat and Sohar in 1743.

The Iranians had occupied the coast before — indeed the coast was often the possession of various empires.

The Al Said clan became a royal dynasty when Ahmad ibn Said Al Said was elected imam following the expulsion of the Iranians from Muscat in 1744.

Unofficial use of the exonym by both Iranians and non-Iranians continues to this day.

In the early nineteenth centuries, continuing bloody conflict involved not only the Al Khalifa, the Al Jalahima, and the Iranians but also the Omanis under Sayyid Said ibn Sultan Al Said, the nascent Wahhabis of Arabia, and the Ottomans.

Most of them are South Asians, Egyptians, Palestinians, Jordanians, Iranians and Somalis.

Khomeini has been criticized for these acts and for human rights violations of Iranians ( including his ordering of execution of thousands of political prisoners ;), but also lauded as a " charismatic leader of immense popularity ", and a " champion of Islamic revival " by Shia scholars.

Most Iranians had a deep respect for the Shi ' a clergy or Ulema, and tended to be religious, traditional, and alienated from the process of Westernization pursued by the Shah.

After the 1977 death of Dr. Ali Shariati ( an Islamic reformist and political revolutionary author / academic / philosopher who greatly popularized the Islamic revival among young educated Iranians ), Khomeini became the most influential leader of the opposition to the Shah.

Adding to his mystique was the circulation among Iranians in the 1970s of an old Shia saying attributed to the Imam Musa al-Kadhem.

He was perceived by many Iranians as the spiritual, if not political, leader of revolt.

Although thousands of kilometers away from Iran in Paris, Khomeini set the course of the revolution, urging Iranians not to compromise and ordering work stoppages against the regime.