Examples of Iranian Revolution in the following topics:
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- President Carter’s biggest foreign policy problem was the Iranian hostage crisis, whose roots lay in the 1950s.
- In February of 1979, the shah was overthrown when revolution broke out, and a few months later, he departed for the United States for medical treatment.
- Carter's negotiations with the Iranian activists failed to free them.
- In Iran, the taking of hostages was widely seen as an act of resistance against U.S. influence in Iran, its attempts to undermine the Iranian Revolution, and its longstanding support of Shah Pahlavi of Iran, recently overthrown by the revolution.
- Explain the background, resolution, and aftermath of the Iranian Hostage Crisis.
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- The 1979 (or second) oil crisis in the United States occurred in the wake of the Iranian Revolution.
- Protests severely disrupted the Iranian oil sector, with production being greatly curtailed and exports suspended.
- President Jimmy Carter's decision to order the cessation of Iranian imports, driving the price far higher than would be expected under normal circumstances.
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- When the Iran–Iraq War broke out following the Iranian Islamic revolution of 1979, the United States initially remained neutral in the conflict.
- The US mainly sided with Iraq, believing that Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini threatened regional stability more than Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
- US officials feared that an Iranian victory would embolden Islamic fundamentalists in the Arab states, perhaps leading to the overthrow of secular governments—and damage to Western corporate interests—in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Kuwait.
- After initial Iraqi military victories were reversed and an Iranian victory appeared possible in 1982, the American government initiated Operation Staunch to attempt to cut off the Iranian regime's access to weapons (notwithstanding their later shipment of weapons to Iran in the Iran-Contra Affair).
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- The scandal began as an operation to free seven American hostages being held by a group with Iranian ties connected to the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution.
- The Iranian recipients promised to do everything in their power to achieve the release of the U.S. hostages.
- While President Ronald Reagan was a supporter of the Contra cause, the evidence is disputed as to whether he authorized the diversion of the money raised by the Iranian arms sales to the Contras.
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- On May 6, 1995, Clinton signed Executive Order 12957 which implemented tight oil and trade sanctions on Iran, and made it illegal for American corporations or their foreign subsidiaries to participate in any contract "for the financing of the development of petroleum resources located in Iran. " On May 6, 1995, President Clinton also issued Executive Order 12959, which banned almost all trade between U.S. businesses and the Iranian government, with the exception of informational materials.
- That year, Secretary Albright and President Clinton mandated what could be considered an apology to the Iranian people for the 1953 CIA-assisted coup that overthrew the democratically-elected Prime Minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, and replaced him with the Shah, thus contributing to the 1979 Islamic Revolution two decades later.
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- He sees Islam itself as a type of revolution that greatly changed the societies into which the new religion was brought .
- Bernard Lewis believes that the advent of Islam was a revolution that only partially succeeded due to tensions between the new religion and the very old societies that the Muslims conquered.
- Lewis however notes that the equality in Islam was restricted to free adult male Muslims, but even that "represented a very considerable advance on the practice of both the Greco-Roman and the ancient Iranian world. "
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- The Islamic Iranian Safavid Empire (1501-1786) is marked by the development of various artistic styles in Persia.
- The Iranian Safavid Empire (1501-1786) is distinguished from the Mughal and Ottoman dynasties by the Shi'a faith of its shahs, which was the majority Islamic denomination in Persia.
- His painting and calligraphic style influenced Iranian artists for much of the Safavid period, which came to be known as the Isfahan school.
- In the seventeenth century, increased contact with distant cultures, especially those of Europe, provided a boost of inspiration to Iranian artists who adopted modeling, foreshortening, spatial recession, and the medium of oil painting.
- Naqshe Jahan square in Isfahan is the epitome of 16th-century Iranian architecture.
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- In the first year of his presidency, Eisenhower deposed the leader of Iran in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, and used nuclear threats to conclude the Korean War with China.
- In 1958, he sent fifteen thousand U.S. troops to Lebanon to prevent the pro-Western government from falling to a Nasser-inspired revolution.