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Shah Mohammed, embraced Western governments and oil companies. Iran nationalist resented these foreign alliances and united under

Prime Minister Muhammed.

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

1953

The leader of this religious opposition: Ayatollah Ruholla Khoeini was living in excile, Spurred by his messages Iranians roited in every major city.

1978

the shah fled Iran

The Ayatollah's Blessing: young Isla,ic revolutonaties siezed the U.S. embassy in tehran.

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

War broke out between Iran and Iraq

1979

The ostages remained prisooneres later they were released.

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

1988

1980

1981

The withdreew of all Soviet troops.

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

1989