The President and his advisers felt that the time might have come to warn Premier Khrushchev against a grave miscalculation in areas such as Berlin, Iran or Latin America from which there would be no turning back.

* 2005 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes President of Iran.

* 1981 – President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.

On 15 May 2006, Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, a cleric and successful businessman educated in Iran, Saudi Arabia and Sudan, was declared the winner of elections for President of the Republic.

Some public opinion has started to turn against Hezbollah for their support of Syrian President Assad's attacks on the opposition movement in Syria Crowds in Cairo shouted out against Iran and Hezbollah, at a public speech by Hamas President Ismail Haniya in February 2012, when Hamas changed its support to the Syrian opposition.

* 2002 – In his State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush describes " regimes that sponsor terror " as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

* 1981 – Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated, at age 69 the oldest man ever to be inaugurated as U. S. President, Iran releases 52 American hostages.

*** President of Iran

President Ortega's decision to support radical regimes such as Iran and Cuba, his harsh rhetoric against the United States and capitalism, and his use of government institutions to persecute political enemies and their businesses, has had a negative effect on perceptions of country risk, which by some accounts has quadrupled since he assumed office.

* 1943 – World War II: Tehran Conference – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran to discuss war strategy.

* 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: in response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.

* 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.

Khalid Meshaal, the leader of Hamas, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, and President Ahmadinejad of Iran urged all Arab states with remaining ties to Israel to cut them.

In 2009, RAWA and other women's rights groups strongly condemned a " Shia Family Code " which is claimed to legalise spousal rape within Northern Afghan Shia Muslim communities, as well as endorsing child marriage, purdah ( seclusion ) for married women, which was passed by President Hamid Karzai to garner support for his coalition government from hardline elements within the aforesaid communities, as well as the neighbouring Shia-dominated Islamic Republic of Iran.

* 2009 – U. S. President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a joint TV appearance for a G-20 summit, accused Iran of building a secret nuclear enrichment facility.

In his January 2002 state of the union address to Congress, President George W. Bush spoke of an " axis of evil " consisting of Iran, North Korea, and Iraq.

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* President Abulhassan Banisadr ( Iran )

* President Mohammad-Ali Rajai ( Iran )

* President Ali Khamenei ( Iran )

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called relations " firm and progressive " over the past three decades.

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

Iranian president Ahmadinejad also attended the inauguration of President Correa in January 2007.

* October 28 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran

* President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ( Iran )

" 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.

President Ahmadinejad suggested that 5 million residents should migrate out of Tehran.

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 ".

President Ahmadinejad, the only major leader to attend the conference, said Jewish migrants from Europe and the United States had been sent to the Middle East after World War II " in order to establish a racist government in the occupied Palestine ".

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.

He was replaced by Manouchehr Mottaki, as appointed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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.

In May 2008, President Bush cautioned against " the false comfort of appeasement " when dealing with Iran and its President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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.

On Monday, June 29, 2009, the Guardian Council certified the results of the controversial election in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected.

" 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.

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.

In 2008, WJC President Ronald S. Lauder criticized a visit by Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey to Tehran where she met with Ahmadinejad mainly to help a Swiss company secure a multi-billion-dollar contract to buy natural gas from Iran.