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| 1882 | Mossadeq, Muhammad |  |
| 19th May Birth of Muhammad Mossadeq |
| 1913 | Mossadeq, Muhammad | |
| Obtains a law doctorate & an attornyship permit |
| 1917 | Mossadeq, Muhammad | |
| Appointed Deputy Finance Minister |
| 1919 | Al-Doleh, Moshir | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of Iran |
| 1919 | Mossadeq, Muhammad | |
| Resigns after Vosough al-Doleh makes Iran a virtual British colony |
| 1920 | Mosaddeq, Mohammad | |
| Appointed Minister of Justice |
| 1920 | Mossadeq, Muhammad | |
| Appointed Minister of Justice |
| 1921 | Mosaddeq, Mohammad | |
| Appointed Minister of Finance |
| 1921 | Mossadeq, Muhammad | |
| Azerbaijan Appointed Governor of Azerbaijan |
| Appointed Minister of Finance |
| 1921 | Pahlavi | |
| Appointed Minister of War |
| 21st Feb Appointed Minister of War |
| 1922 | Mussadeq, Mohammed | |
| Appointed Foreign Minister |
| 1923 | Mosaddeq, Mohammad | |
| Appointed Minister of Foreign Afairs |
| 1923 | Mossadeq, Muhammad | |
| May Appointed Foreign Minister |
| 1951 | Mosaddeq, Mohammad | |
| Mar Mosaddeq passes a bill nationalizing British Petroleum's Iraqi interests |
| April Appointed Prime Minister of Iran |
| 1951 | Mossadeq, Muhammad | |
| Abadan Expels western personnel from the Abadan oil refineries |
| 19th Jan Tehran Sponsors a bill to Nationalize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company |
| 28th April Appointed Prime Minister of Iran after two weeks of rioting in Abadan |
| 1951 | Mussadeq, Mohammed | |
| 27th April Appointed Prime Minister of Iran |
| 1952 | Mossadeq, Muhammad | |
| 20th Aug Appointed Prime Minister of Iran, after 4 days of revolt following his dismissal |
| 1952 | Mussadeq, Mohammed | |
| Tehran Given dictatorial powers by the Majlis |
| 22nd Oct Tehran Iran breaks off relations with the UK after failing to agree the future of Iran's oil |
| 22nd Oct Tehran Iran revokes the Treaty of friendship mad with Britain in 1857 |
| 1953 | Fatemi, Hussein | |
| Tehran Death of Hussein Fatemi, executed for treason |
| Tehran Executed for treason |
| 1953 | Mossadeq, Muhammad | |
| Mar Tehran Expelled Army officers fail to assassinate Mossadeq |
| Aug A majority of those voting vote for the dissolution of the Majlis, |
| Aug Publicizes details of 2 coups against his government |
| Aug Sentenced to 3 yrs imprisonment & placed under house arrest for the rest of his life |
| 16th Aug Mossadeq is dimissed by the Shah in accordane with Anglo-USAwishes |
| 17th Aug Statues of Mohammad Reza & Reza Shah are pulled down after Mossadeq's dismissal |
| 1953 | Mussadeq, Mohammed | |
| Tehran Arrested for causing civil disorder after his dismissal |
| 13th Aug Tehran Dismissed by the Shah |
| 1957 | Ekbal, Manuchehr | |
| 3rd April Appointed Prime Minister of Iran |
| 1960 | Sharif-Emani, Jaafar | |
| 31st Aug Appointed Prime Minister of Iran, 1st term |
| 1961 | Amini, Ali | |
| 19th July Appointed Prime Minister of Iran |
| 1962 | Alam, Asadullah | |
| 19th July Appointed Prime Minister of Iran |
| 1964 | Mansur, Hassan Ali | |
| 7th Mar Appointed Prime Minister of Iran |
| 1965 | Hoveida, Amir Abbas | |
| 26th Jan Appointed Prime Minister of Iran |
| 1967 | Mossadeq, Muhammad | |
| 4th Mar Ahmad Abad Death of Muhammad Mossadeq |
| 1977 | Amouzegar, Jamshid | |
| 7th Aug Appointed Prime Minister of Iran |
| 1978 | Azhari, Gholam Reza | |
| 6th Nov Appointed Prime Minister of Iran |
| 1978 | Sharif-Emani, Jaafar | |
| 27th Aug Appointed Prime Minister of Iran, 2nd term |
| 1979 | Bakhtiar, Shahpur | |
| 4th Jan Appointed Prime Minister of Iran |
| 1979 | Bazargan, Mehdi | |
| 5th Feb Appointed Prime Minister of Iran |
| 12th Aug The Islamic Revolutionary Council is established, Bazargan resigns |
| 1979 | Khomeini, Ruhollah | |
| Feb Khomeini declares an Islamic republic |
| Feb Khomeini forms a ruling revolutionary council |
| 1st Feb Returns to Iran after 16 yrs of exile |
| 11th Feb Tehran Khomeini declares an Islamic republic |
| 30th Mar A referendum overwhelmingly approves the new regime |
| 1980 | Khomeini, Ruhollah | |
| 11th Feb Tehran Assumes power as head of a theocratic state |
| 1980 | Qotbzadeh, Sadeq | |
| 4th Nov Tehran Foreign Minister, Sadeq Qotbzadeh, condemned the rescue effort as "an act of war" |
| 1980 | Raja'i, Mohammad Ali | |
| 12th Aug Appointed Prime Minister of Iran, during the Islamic Revolutionary Council |
| 1981 | Bahonar, Mohammad Javad | |
| 4th Aug Appointed Prime Minister of Iran, during the Islamic Revolutionary Council |
| 1981 | Khomeini, Ruhollah | |
| 20th Jan Tehran All 52 American hostages are released as Reagan is inaugurated as President |
| 20th Jan Algiers Iranian assets are moved from the USA to a Bank of England account |
| 1981 | Mahdavi-Kani, Mohammad Reza | |
| 2nd Sep Appointed Prime Minister of Iran, during the Islamic Revolutionary Council |
| 1981 | Moussavi, Mir Hossein | |
| 29th Oct Appointed Prime Minister of Iran, during the Islamic Revolutionary Council |
| 1982 | Khomeini, Ruhollah | |
| 27th Sep Tehran Street battles lead to defeat of the Mujaheddin by the Revolutionary Guard |
| 1983 | Khomeini, Ruhollah | |
| 4th May Iran outlaws the Tufeh, Iranian Communist Party |
| 1987 | Khomeini, Ruhollah | |
| 17th July Iran and France breaks diplomatic relations |
| 1989 | Khomeini, Ruhollah | |
| Death of Ruhollah Khomeini |
| Feb Iran breaks off relations with Britain |
| Feb The Ayatollah Khomeini calls for the death of Salman Rushdie |
| 1989 | Moussavi, Mir Hossein | |
| 3rd Aug The post of Prime Minister is abolished |
| 1989 | Rafsanjani, Hashemi | |
| Appointed Head of State |
| 1997 | Khatami, Muhammad | |
| 23rd May Muhammad Khatami is elected President of Iran |
| 1998 | Kharrazi, Kamal | |
| Sep The Fatwah on Rushdie is lifted after talks between Robin Cook & Kamal Kharrazi |
| 1998 | Khatami, Muhammad | |
| President Khatami calls for a "dialogue with the American people" in American TV interview but in a sermon a few weeks later he is sharply critical of USA"oppressive policies" |
| 1999 | Kharrazi, Kamal | |
| May Britain & Iran exchange ambassadors for the 1st time since 1989 |
| 1999 | Khatami, Muhammad | |
| Twentieth anniversary of USAembassy siege, hardliners celebrate the occasion, as reformists look to the future rather than the past |
| 2000 | Kharrazi, Kamal | |
| Sep New York Mrs Albright meets Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi at UN in New York - the first such talks since diplomatic ties were severed in 1979 |
| 2000 | Khatami, Muhammad | |
| Feb President Clinton extends ban on USAoil contracts with Iran, accusing it of continuing to support international terrorism |
| 18th Feb Iranian reformists win landslide victory in the general election |
| Mar USASecretary of State Madeleine Albright calls for a new start in US-Iranian relations and announces lifting of sanctions on Iranian exports ranging from carpets to food products |
| 2001 | Kharrazi, Kamal | |
| The USAalleges that elements within the Iranian Government were directly involved in the bombing of an American military base in SaudiArabia in 1996, Tehran angrily rejects the allegations |
| 2003 | Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud | |
| 5th Feb Iran makes an offer of negotiation with the USAthat covers nuclear matters and Iran's support for Palestinian groups resisting Israeli occupation, the offer is spurned by the Bush administration |
| 16th June Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, declares that "Iran failed to report certain nuclear materials and activities" and requests "co-operative actions" from the country |
| Sep Washington says Iran is not complying with non-proliferation accords but agrees to support proposal from Britain, France and Germany to give Iran until end of October fully to disclose nuclear activities and allow surprise inspections |
| 31st Oct The IAEA declares that Iran has submitted a "comprehensive" declaration of its nuclear program |
| Nov Tehran agrees to suspend its uranium enrichment programme and allow tougher UN inspections of its nuclear facilities |
| 11th Nov The IAEA declares that there is no evidence that Iran is attempting to build an nuclear atomic bomb |
| Dec Bam USAsends humanitarian aid to Iran after earthquake kills up to 50,000 people in city of Bam |
| 2004 | Kharrazi, Kamal | |
| 18th Dec Kamal Kharrazi says, "We won't accept any new obligations. Iran has a high technical capability and has to be recognised by the international community as a member of the nuclear club. This is an irreversible path" |
| 2005 | Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud | |
| 24th June Ahmadinejad sweeps to the presidential post with a stunning 17,046,441 votes out of a total of 27,536,069 votes cast |
| 3rd Aug Appointed President of Iran |
| 3rd Aug Recieves the presidential authorization from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei |
| 15th Sep At a United Nations high-level summit, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad states Iran had the right to develop a civil nuclear-power program within the terms of the 1970 treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons |
| Oct Ahmadinejad refers to Israel as a "disgraceful stain [on] the Islamic world" that would be eliminated |
| Oct Iran's new president repeats a remark from a former Ayatollah that Israel should be "wiped out from the map," insisting that a new series of attacks will destroy the Jewish state |
| Oct Quoted as saying, "God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism" |
| 19th Nov The IAEA releasedsa report saying that Iran blocked nuclear inspectors from the United Nations from conducting a second visit to a site known as Parchin military complex |
| 2006 | Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud | |
| The Ahmadinejad government forces numerous Iranian scientists and University professors to resign or to retire, referred to as "second cultural revolution" after the Islamic Cultural Revolution |
| 31st Jan The IAEA reports that "Iran has continued to facilitate access under its Safeguards Agreement as requested by the Agency ... including by providing in a timely manner the requisite declarations and access to locations" |
| 4th Feb The IAEA votes 27-3 to report Iran to the United Nations Security Council, After the vote, Iran announces its intention to end voluntary co-operation with the IAEA beyond basic Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty requirements |
| 5th Feb Iran says it will no longer allow snap inspections of its nuclear sites, after the UN nuclear watchdog vote to report Tehran to the Security Council |
| April Ahmadinejad announces that Iran had successfully refined uranium to a stage suitable for the nuclear fuel cycle |
| 24th April Announces that a ruling which prevented women from watching men playing sports in stadiums would soon be reversed |
