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  2. Iranian revolution - Wikipedia

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    Bakhtiar escaped the palace under a hail of bullets, fleeing Iran in disguise. He was later assassinated by an agent of the Islamic republic in 1991 in Paris. This period, from 1 to 11 February, is celebrated every year in Iran as the "Decade of Fajr."

  3. Human capital flight from Iran - Wikipedia

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    Why are you discussing these rotten brains of [these] lost people? Why are you questioning Islam? Are they fleeing? To hell with them. Let them flee. They were not scientific brains. All the better. Don't be concerned. They should escape. [Iran] is not a place for them to live any more. These fleeing brains are of no use to us. Let them flee.

  4. Exodus of Iranian Jews - Wikipedia

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    The 2012 census put the figure of remaining Jewish community in Iran at about 9,000. [26] The Jewish population of Iran was 8,756 according to 2013 Iranian census. [3] [27] According to Iranian census, the remaining Jewish population of Iran was 9,826 in 2016; [28] while in 2021, the World Population Review website numbered the Jews in Iran at ...

  5. Iran, Hezbollah aim to bolster Assad as rebels bear down on Homs

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    Iran will send missiles, drones and more advisers to Syria, a senior Iranian official said on Friday, as rebel forces pushed their lightning offensive south towards the city of Homs in the biggest ...

  6. A CIA-backed 1953 coup in Iran haunts the country with people ...

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    Seventy years after a CIA-orchestrated coup toppled Iran's prime minister, its legacy remains both contentious and complicated for the Islamic Republic as tensions stay high with the United States.

  7. Background and causes of the Iranian revolution - Wikipedia

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    Shi'a clergy (or Ulema) have historically had a significant influence in Iran.The clergy first showed themselves to be a powerful political force in opposition to Iran's monarch with the 1891 tobacco protest boycott that effectively destroyed an unpopular concession granted by the shah giving a British company a monopoly over buying and selling tobacco in Iran.

  8. Why are protesters in Iran blocking streets and burning their ...

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    The real news of Iran is this not nuclear deal or Ebrahim Raisi’s speech at the UN. Iranian women removing their hijab, facing guns and bullets alongside men and chanting against Islamic Republic.

  9. Timeline of the Iranian hostage crisis - Wikipedia

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    19 January: U.S. and Iran sign an agreement over the hostages. Iran releases all of the hostages and U.S. frees 8 billion U.S. dollars of Iranian State assets from American banks. 20 January: U.S. president-elect Ronald Reagan takes the oath of office. Only 20 minutes after Reagan's oath, Iran releases all 52 hostages who are flown to West ...