history

Shah Mohammed, embraced Western governments and oil companies. Iranian nationalists resented these foreign alliances and united under Prime Minister Muhammed.

They nationalized a British-owned oil company and forced the shah to flee.

The leader of this religious opposition, Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini was living in exile. Spurred by his messages Iranians rioted in every major city .

The shah fled Iran

The ayatollah’s blessing

young Islamic revolutionaries seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran

War broke out between Iran and Iraq in 1980.

The hostages remained prisoners

were released

A million Iranians and Iraqis died in the war before the UN negotiated a ceasefire

1953

1

9

7

9

1978

1980

1981

1988

To protest the invasion, he stopped U.S. grain shipments to the Soviet Union and ordered a U.S. boycott of the Moscow Olympics

1989

The withdrew of all Soviet troops.

The internal unrest and economic problems were tearing apart the Soviet Union itself