Iran Iran so far away…. Iran used to be Persia Until 1935 Became an Islamic Republic in 1979.
Iran 1979
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Iran 1979 revolution
From one tyrant
to the next.
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Peace full? I think not!
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The beginning of a long Regime
• Iran's 1979 revolution was quickly hijacked by right winged clerics who quickly created a constitution giving power to a religious supreme leader.
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Khomeini became faqih, or definitive leader, and used his unlimited powers to eliminate opponents. When he won 99% of a vote for a new constitution, there was nothing to stop him from obtaining supreme dictatorship .Khomeini also proceeded with a purge of all “un-Islamic” elements from universities, newspapers, and other social aspects of the country.
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Death by a firing squad was ordered to any one who opposed the revolution.
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•By 1981 some 1,600 people had been executed under Khomeini’s regime.
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1979 Hostage Situation
In November 1979 hundreds of Iranians overran the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took the staff hostage.
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Khomeini refused to release the hostages until the United States of America apologized for its’ support of the Shah, and met several other of Khomeini’s demands.
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The hostages were finally released in January 1981 after Ronald Reagan took office presiding over Jimmy Carter as president.