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2010 in Iran
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Events in the year 2010 in the Islamic Republic of Iran. January 8 – Mehdi Karroubis car is hit by fire in Qazvin, january 12 – Masoud Alimohammadi, an Iranian nuclear physics professor, is killed in a bomb attack in the capital Tehran, Iran state media accuses Israel and the United States of involvement. January 19 – Iran rejects a deal offered by the International Atomic Energy Agency to exchange low-enriched uranium for nuclear fuel, january 23 – A passenger train in Iran derails, killing at least eight people and wounding at least fifteen others. January 24 – Taban Air Flight 6437, A flight operated by Kolavia on behalf of Taban Air crashes on landing at Mashhad International Airport, Iran, january 28 – Iran executes two opposition supporters for their role in the election protests in the country. February 7 – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad orders his countrys atomic agency to begin enriching uranium to a higher level, february 11 – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran is now a nuclear state, following a successful 20% uranium enrichment. March 19 – Former Iranian Vice-President Hossein Marashi is jailed after being accused of spreading propaganda, march 31 – Shahram Amiri, a scientist involved in Irans nuclear program, defects to the United States and begins talking to the Central Intelligence Agency. April 5 – Iran invites 60 countries to a nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran on April 17–18, entitled Nuclear energy for everyone. China says it will attend the conference which invites the world to disarm, April 20 – Speaking in Tehran, Iranian Islamic cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi blames promiscuous women for causing earthquakes. April 30 – Iran threatens to cut off Israels feet if Israel attacks Syria, may 24 – Irans largest water supply project is inaugurated in Khorramshahr. June 18 – The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran starts designing a newer, July 9 – Iran announces that women convicted of adultery will no longer face stoning to death after international concern. They may, however, still face the death penalty, July 15 – July 2010 Zahedan bombings, More than 20 people are killed and 100 injured in a suicide attack at a mosque in southeastern Iran. July 23 – President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces plans to launch a shuttle into space by 2019. August 21 – Russian engineers start loading fuel into Irans first nuclear reactor at Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, september 10 – More than 50 people are injured in an oil pipeline blast in northeastern Iran. September 15 – 2009–2010 detention of American hikers by Iran, Iran releases United States hiker Sarah Shourd from Evin Prison following payment of bail. September 28 – Iranian-Canadian blogger Hossein Derakhshan, the founder of one of the first Persian-language blogs, is sentenced to 19 years imprisonment in an Iranian court for anti-state activity, october 13 – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits Lebanon amidst concern from Israel and United States. October 26 – Iran starts loading fuel into the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, november 21 – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejects the countrys once effective family planning program as an ungodly Western import and urges girls to marry at age of 16. November 29 – Iranian nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari is killed and his wife injured, Iran says Western governments and Israel may have carried out the killing. January 3 – Ali Safi Golpaygani,96, Iranian Marja, january 12 – Masoud Alimohammadi,50, Iranian nuclear scientist, bomb blast
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2011 in Iran
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Events in the year 2011 in the Islamic Republic of Iran. January 9 – Iran Air Flight 277 crashes with 100 people on board near Orumiyeh in the northeast of the country, january 23 – President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad designed Ali Akbar Salehi, then acting Foreign Minister to the Parliament to succeed Manouchehr Mottaki who was dismissed on December. February 11 – Iran marks the 32nd anniversary of its Revolution, February 11 – Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi is placed under house arrest after calling for demonstrations in support of the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. February 13 – Opposition leaders in Iran call for nationwide anti-government rallies on Monday, February 15 – Iranian politicians call for the execution of opposition leaders. February 22 – The Iran Navy sends two ships through the Suez Canal for the first time since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, February 28 – Iran confirms that it is holding two Opposition leaders Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi under house arrest. March 25 – The Government of Iran rejects a United Nations Human Rights Council investigation into alleged human rights abuses, may 6 - Irans supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issues an ultimatum to the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to accept his intervention in a cabinet appointment or resign. May 15 - Sepahan F. C. won their championship in Iran Pro League. June 1 – Irans parliament finds that the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad acted illegally by appointing himself as Oil Minister, june 12 – The United Nations Security Council reports that Iran is buying foreign banks and money-exchange bureaus to sidestep economic sanctions. June 12 –2011 Iranian protests, Iranian authorities disperse and arrest protesters in the capital Tehran marking the anniversary of the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as President. June 28 – Iran tests 14 surface-to-surface missiles on the day of war games. July 18 – Iranian athlete and Irans Strongest Man Rouhollah Dadashi is killed in a fight which started as an argument with another driver, two of them are arrested by police. July 23 – Daryoush Rezaei, an Iranian scientist, is shot dead outside his home in Tehran and it was reported that the scientist had links to the countrys nuclear programme. August 3 – The Iranian parliament confirms four new ministers including Rostam Ghasemi as Minister of Petroleum, august 5 –2011 Syrian uprising, Turkey confirms it has seized an Iranian arms shipment to Syria. August 14 – Iran confirms the arrest of the second-in-command of the Kurdistan Workers Party, Murat Karayılan, august 25 – Former Iranian Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi is hospitalized after a heart attack. September 27 – CEOs of Iranian Melli Bank and Saderat Bank resign from their positions as a result of $2.6 billion bank fraud, january 4 – Ali-Reza Pahlavi,44, royal, son of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, suicide by gunshot. January 29 - Zahra Bahrami,45, dual Dutch-Iranian citizen executed on disputed drug trafficking charges. February 14 - Sane Jaleh,26, student, killed in protests February 15 - Mohammad Mokhtari,21, killed in protests March 8 - Iraj Afshar,85, bibliographer, historian, april 16 - Bijan Pakzad,67, designer of menswear and fragrances
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2012 in Iran
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Events in the year 2012 in the Islamic Republic of Iran. S. Citizen of Iranian descent, to death on espionage charges, March 2 - Iranian parliamentary elections for the 9th Islamic Consultative Assembly were held. March 12 - Ali Daei, Irans football legend and the worlds leading goalscorer, is rushed to hospital following a serious car accident. March 26 - Somali pirates hijack an Iranian-owned cargo ship with 23 crew in waters off the Maldives, april 14 - Iran and world powers, including the United States, Russia, and China, begin talks about Irans nuclear program. April 23 - Irans oil ministry and its National Iranian Oil Company suffers an attack by a computer virus. May 1 - Egypt security services foil an alleged Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Cairo, may 5 - Voters in Iran go to the polls for the second round of legislative elections. May 12 - President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls Israel nothing more than a mosquito, may 15 - Majid Jamali Fashi, convicted of killing Iranian quantum field theorist and elementary-particle physicist Masoud Alimohammadi, is executed. June 11 - Ali Larijani is sworn in as Chairman of the Parliament of Iran for another term, june 24 - The United States admits that it infected Iranian computers with Spyware. N. and the European Union diplomats. July 2 - Officials in Kenya say that two Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards arrested with explosives planned to attack Israeli, American, British, july 4 - Two Iranian suspects held by Kenyan police reportedly confess that they planned to detonate a series of 30 bombs simultaneously across Kenya. July 17 - United States President Barack Obama announces additional sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program, August 4 - Iran claims to have successfully test fired a fourth generation Fateh-110 missile. August 11 - Two earthquakes, the strongest a magnitude 6.4, strike near the northwestern Iranian cities of Tabriz and Ahar, killing at least 250 people and injuring up to 1,800 others. August 21 - Iran unveils a new version of a short range ballistic missile, named the Fateh-110 or Conqueror. August 26 - Heads of state meet at the 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran, Iran, August 30 - Iran and Egypt describe each other as strategic allies at the 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Iran. It sees Iran as the worlds most significant threat to global peace, minister of foreign affairs Baird says the Canadian government files Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism under the Canadian Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act. September 23 - Iran blocks use of the Google search engine, October 11 - Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah confirms that the drone aircraft shot down over Israels Negev Desert on 6 October belonged to the organization and was supplied by Iran. November 9 - Two Iranian Revolutionary Guard fighter jets fire on an unmanned American General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone in international airspace near Kuwait, january 11 - Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, Iranian nuclear scientist. January 13 - Abdollah Mojtabavi, Iranian wrestler, March 8 - Simin Daneshvar, Iranian writer and academic March 18 -Jalal Zolfonun, Iranian setar player and composer May 6 - Iraj Ghaderi, Iranian film director and actor. May 21 - Bahram Alivandi, Iranian artist, may 23 - Sattareh Farmanfarmaian, Iranian writer and princess
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20th century
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The 20th century was a century that began on January 1,1901 and ended on December 31,2000. It was the tenth and final century of the 2nd millennium and it is distinct from the century known as the 1900s, which began on January 1,1900 and ended on December 31,1999. It saw great advances in communication and medical technology that by the late 1980s allowed for near-instantaneous worldwide computer communication, the term short twentieth century was coined to represent the events from 1914 to 1991. It took all of history up to 1804 for the worlds population to reach 1 billion, world population reached 2 billion estimates in 1927, by late 1999. Globally approximately 45% of those who were married and able to have children used contraception, 40% of pregnancies were unplanned, the century had the first global-scale total wars between world powers across continents and oceans in World War I and World War II. The century saw a shift in the way that many people lived, with changes in politics, ideology, economics, society, culture, science, technology. The 20th century may have seen more technological and scientific progress than all the other centuries combined since the dawn of civilization, terms like ideology, world war, genocide, and nuclear war entered common usage. It was a century that started with horses, simple automobiles, and freighters but ended with high-speed rail, cruise ships, global commercial air travel and the space shuttle. Horses, Western societys basic form of transportation for thousands of years, were replaced by automobiles and buses within a few decades. Humans explored space for the first time, taking their first footsteps on the Moon, mass media, telecommunications, and information technology made the worlds knowledge more widely available. Advancements in medical technology also improved the health of many people, rapid technological advancements, however, also allowed warfare to reach unprecedented levels of destruction. World War II alone killed over 60 million people, while nuclear weapons gave humankind the means to annihilate itself in a short time, however, these same wars resulted in the destruction of the Imperial system. For the first time in history, empires and their wars of expansion and colonization ceased to be a factor in international affairs, resulting in a far more globalized. The last time major powers clashed openly was in 1945, and since then, technological advancements during World War I changed the way war was fought, as new inventions such as tanks, chemical weapons, and aircraft modified tactics and strategy. After more than four years of warfare in western Europe, and 20 million dead. The regime of Tsar Nicholas II was overthrown during the conflict, Russia became the first communist state, at the beginning of the period, Britain was the worlds most powerful nation, having acted as the worlds policeman for the past century. Meanwhile, Japan had rapidly transformed itself into an advanced industrial power. Its military expansion into eastern Asia and the Pacific Ocean culminated in an attack on the United States
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21st century
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The 21st century is the current century of the Anno Domini era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. It began on January 1,2001 and will end on December 31,2100 and it is the first century of the 3rd millennium. It is distinct from the time known as the 2000s. The long term effects of increased globalization are not known, the Arab Spring of the early 2010s led to mixed outcomes in the Arab world. The Digital Revolution which began around the 1980s also continues into the present, millennials and Generation Z come of age and rise to prominence in this century. The completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 marks the rise of life sciences, making mankinds long-held dreams, such as curing cancer. By the 2010s, gene therapy, first performed somatically in late 1990 and heritably in 1996, showed promise but remains an experimental, by 2013, about 80% of the worlds population used mobile phones. An estimated 33% owned personal computers in 2010, and 46% used the Internet by 2016, the International Energy Agency estimates that 83% of the global population has access to electricity as of 2013 with the percentage projected to increase to 88% by 2030. The world population was about 6.1 billion at the start of the 21st century and it had reached 7.3 billion in 2015, and is estimated to reach about 9.37 billion by the year 2050. There is a debate among experts and the public on how to pronounce specific years of the 21st century in English. A less common variation would have been twenty nought-five, the Vancouver Olympics, which took place in 2010, was being officially referred to by Vancouver 2010 as the twenty-ten Olympics. The latest timeframes for change are usually placed at 2020, kubrick said he did this in the hope that if the film became popular, it would influence the pronunciation of that year. See the timeline of the 21st century, genocide still remains a problem in this century with the concern of the war in Darfur and the growing concern in Sri Lanka. Also controversies from past genocides remain commonplace in the minds of victims, 1998–2002 – The Second Congo War continued into the early 21st century. A1999 ceasefire quickly broke down and a UN peacekeeping mission, Laurent Kabila, president of the DRC, was assassinated in January 2001 and his son, Joseph Kabila, took power. Throughout 2002 steps were made towards peace and Rwanda and Uganda both removed their troops from the country, on December 17,2002, a massive treaty officially ended the war. However, the DRC only holds power in less than half of the country, with most of the eastern and northern portions still controlled by rebel groups, in addition, Rwanda still supports anti-DRC rebels and anti-Rwandan rebels continue to operate from the DRC. The war killed an estimated 3.9 million people, displaced nearly 5.5 million, Severe human rights violations continue to be reported
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1970s
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The 1970s was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1,1970, and ended on December 31,1979. In the 21st century, historians have portrayed the 1970s as a pivot of change in world history focusing especially on the economic upheavals. In the Western world, social values that began in the 1960s, such as increasing political awareness and economic liberty of women. In the United Kingdom, the 1979 elections resulted in the victory of its Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher, industrialized countries, except Japan, experienced an economic recession due to an oil crisis caused by oil embargoes by the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries. Novelist Tom Wolfe coined the term Me decade in his essay The Me Decade, the term describes a general new attitude of Americans towards atomized individualism and away from communitarianism, in clear contrast with the 1960s. Despite facing an oil crisis due to the OPEC embargo, the economy of Japan witnessed a boom in this period. The United States withdrew its forces from their previous involvement in the Vietnam War. In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, which led to a war for ten years. Anwar El Sadat, President of Egypt, was instrumental in the event and consequently became extremely unpopular in the Arab world, Africa saw further decolonization in the decade, with Angola and Mozambique gaining their independence in 1975 from the Portuguese Empire after the restoration of democracy in Portugal. The continent was, however, plagued by military coups, with the long-reigning Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie being removed, civil wars. The economies of much of the world continued to make steady progress in the early 1970s because of the Green Revolution. The following year, Vietnam was officially declared reunited, Soviet war in Afghanistan - Although taking place almost entirely throughout the 1980s, the war officially started on December 27,1979. The Israelis were taken by surprise and suffered losses before they rallied. In the end, they managed to repel the Egyptians and crossed the Suez Canal into Egypt proper, in 1978, Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel at Camp David in the United States, ending outstanding disputes between the two countries. Sadats actions would lead to his assassination in 1981, Indian emergency Lebanese Civil War - A civil war in the Middle East which at times also involved the PLO and Israel during the early 1980s. Western Sahara War - A regional war pinning the rebel Polisario Front against Morocco, Ugandan–Tanzanian War - the war which was fought between Uganda and Tanzania was based on an expansionist agenda to annex territory from Tanzania. The war resulted in the overthrow of Idi Amins regime, the Ogaden War was another African conflict between Somalia and Ethiopia over control of the Ogaden region. In 1976 peaceful student protests in the Soweto township of South Africa lead to the Soweto Uprising when more than 700 black school children were killed by South Africas Security Police, Rise of separatism in the province of Quebec in Canada
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1980s
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The 1980s was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1,1980, and ended on December 31,1989. The decade saw great socioeconomic change due to advances in technology, Japan and West Germany saw large economic growth during this decade. The AIDS epidemic became recognized in the 1980s and has killed an estimated 39 million people. Global warming became well known to the scientific and political community in the 1980s, the final decade of the Cold War opened with the US-Soviet confrontation continuing largely without any interruption. Superpower tensions escalated rapidly as President Reagan scrapped the policy of détente and adopted a new, islamism became a powerful political force in the 1980s and many terrorist organizations, including Al Qaeda started. The Cold War ended in the early 1990s with the successful Reunification of Germany, the 1980s saw great advances in genetic and digital technology. The 1980s saw the advent of the practice of sex-selective abortion in China. By 1989 the Internet and the networks linked to it were a system with extensive transoceanic satellite links. Based on earlier work from 1980 onwards Tim Berners Lee formalized the concept of the World Wide Web by 1989, television viewing became commonplace in the Third World, with the number of TV sets in China and India increasing by 15 and 10 times respectively. The Rome and Vienna airport attacks took place on December 27,1985, the attack was done by militants loyal to Abu Nidal, backed by the government of Libya. The 1983 Beirut barracks bombing – during the Lebanese Civil War two truck bombs struck separate buildings housing United States and French military forces killing 299 American, the organization Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the bombing. The 1984 anti-Sikh riots in India, committed by Hindu militants against Sikhs in response to the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by a Sikh militant, thousands of people are killed and tens of thousands of Sikhs became displaced persons. Air India Flight 182 was destroyed on June 23,1985 and it was the biggest mass murder involving Canadians in Canadas history. On December 21,1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over the village of Lockerbie, Scotland, the bombing killed all 243 passengers,16 crew members and 11 people on the ground, totaling 270 fatalities who were citizens of 21 nationalities. The bombing was and remains the worst terrorist attack on UK soil, invasion of Grenada – a 1983 U. S. -led invasion of Grenada, triggered by a military coup which ousted a brief revolutionary government. Salvadoran Civil War – part of the war conflicts, reached its peak in the 1980s,70,000 Salvadorans died. Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, sparking the Falklands War and it occurred from 2 April to 14 July 1982 between the United Kingdom and Argentina as British forces fought to recover the islands. Britain emerged victorious and its stance in international affairs and its long decaying reputation as a colonial power received an unexpected boost
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1990s
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The 1990s was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1,1990, and ended on December 31,1999. Culturally, the 1990s are characterized by the rise of multiculturalism and alternative media, movements such as grunge, the rave scene and hip hop spread around the world to young people during that decade, aided by then-new technology such as cable television and the World Wide Web. The United States also saw a revival in the use of the death penalty in the 1990s. The dot-com bubble of 1997–2000 brought wealth to some entrepreneurs before its crash between 2000 and 2001, New ethnic conflicts emerged in Africa, the Balkans, and the Caucasus, the former two which led to the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides, respectively. Zaire is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Second Congo War starts in 1998 in central Africa and includes 50 different cultures and 7 different nations. The Gulf War – Iraq was left in debt after the 1980s war with Iran. President Saddam Hussein accused Kuwait of flooding the market with oil, as a result, on 2 August 1990, Iraqi forces invaded and conquered Kuwait. The UN immediately condemned the action, and a force led by the United States was sent to the Persian Gulf. Aerial bombing of Iraq began in January 1991, and a month later, in the aftermath of the war, the Kurds in the north of Iraq and the Shiites in the south rose up in revolt, and Saddam Hussein barely managed to hold onto power. Until the US invasion in 2003, Iraq was cut off much of the world. The Chechen wars break out in the 1990s, The First Chechen War – the conflict was fought between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, during the war Russian forces largely recaptured the separatist region of Chechnya. The campaign largely reversed the outcome of the First Chechen War, the Kargil War – In May 1999, Pakistan sent troops covertly to occupy strategic peaks in Kashmir. A month later the Kargil War with India results in a fiasco for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The incident leads to a coup in October, in which Sharif is ousted by Army Chief Pervez Musharraf. This conflict remains the only war fought between two declared nuclear powers, the Kosovo War, War between Albanian separatists and Yugoslav military and Serb paramilitary forces in Kosovo begin in 1996 and escalates in 1998 with increasing reports of atrocities taking place. After weeks of bombing, Yugoslavia submits to NATOs demands and NATO forces occupy Kosovo, the Yugoslav Wars would become notorious for numerous war crimes and human rights violations such as ethnic cleansing and genocide committed by all sides. Ten-Day War – a brief conflict between Slovenian TO and the Yugoslav Peoples Army following Slovenias declaration of independence. Bosnian War – the war involved several ethnically defined factions within Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats as well as a smaller Bosniak faction led by Fikret Abdić
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