Events from the year 1989 in Iran. Supreme Leader: Ruhollah Khomeini (until June 3), Ali Khamenei (starting June 4) President: Ali Khamenei (until August...

the Persian text in this article correctly. Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders...

in Iran on 28 July 1989, after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the selection of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the previous President of Iran,...

In the 1989 Iranian Supreme Leader election the Assembly of Experts members voted to choose the second Supreme Leader of Iran. The election was held on...

A constitutional referendum was held in Iran on 28 July 1989, alongside presidential elections. Approved by 97.6% of voters, it was the first and so far...

Historically, Iran was commonly referred to as "Persia" in the Western world. Likewise, the modern-day ethnonym "Persian" was typically used as a demonym...

Iran–Contra affair (Persian: ماجرای ایران-کنترا; Spanish: Caso Irán-Contra), often referred to as the Iran–Contra scandal and more rarely as the Iran...

The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. Active...

into the start of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1923 and into the 1979 Iranian Revolution before being abolished in 1989. In the Qajar era, prime ministers were...

abolished after the 1989 constitutional referendum. The first Iranian presidential election was held on January 25, 1980 and resulted in the election of Abolhassan...

1989 in Central and Eastern Europe. 1989 Iranian Supreme Leader election: Ali Khamenei is elected Supreme Leader of Iran after announcing the death of Ruhollah...

On 3 June 1989, at 22:20 IRST, Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the Iranian Revolution and the first Supreme Leader and founder of the Islamic...

Left in Iran, page vi Abrahamian 1989, p. 87. Abrahamian 1989, pp. 227–230. Abrahamian 1989, p. 88. Abedin, Mahan. "Mojahedin-e-Khalq: Saddam's Iranian Allies...

referendum. In this referendum, 99.5 percent of Iranian voters approved the constitution. Ten years later, in the summer of 1989, Iranian voters would...

Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, was the Supreme Leader of Iran until his death in 1989. He was followed by Ali Khamenei. From 1999 to present, there...

Three Millennia of Coexistence: Language Shift in the Central Iranian Plateau, p. 70 Pierre Lecoq. 1989. "Les dialectes caspiens et les dialectes du nord-ouest...

The Iranian Revolution (Persian: انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân [ʔeɴɢeˌlɒːbe ʔiːɾɒːn]), also known as the 1979 Revolution, or the Islamic Revolution (انقلاب...

hostage in Iran after a group of armed Iranian college students belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who supported the Iranian Revolution...

Throughout history, women in Iran have played numerous roles, and contributed in many ways, to Iranian society. Historically, tradition maintained that...

until his death in 1989 and Ali Khamenei, who has held the position for more than 30 years since Khomeini's death. The Supreme Leader of Iran is elected by...

June 1989) was a United States Special Operations Command operation intended to protect U.S.-flagged oil tankers from Iranian attack during the Iran–Iraq...

Abadi (born 30 March 1989) is an Iranian Paralympic judoka. He represented Iran at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. Banitaba represented Iran at the 2024 Summer...

Iran Barkley (/aɪˈræn/; born May 6, 1960) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1982 to 1999. He held world championships in three...

The history of Iran (or Persia, as it was known in the Western world) is intertwined with Greater Iran, a sociocultural region spanning from Anatolia...

Guarded Domains of Iran, commonly called Safavid Iran, Safavid Persia or the Safavid Empire, was one of the largest and long-standing Iranian empires after...

one-third of Iran's total surface area is suitable for farmland, but because of poor soil and a lack of adequate water distribution in many areas, most...

ethnicity. Most Iranian Azerbaijanis are bilingual in Azerbaijani and Persian. They are mainly of Iranian descent. They are primarily found in and are native...

set up in 1989 to enhance cooperation and counterbalance the rivalry between the armed forces and is directly decreed by Supreme Leader of Iran, while...

On 7 January 1989, Ruhollah Khomeini, supreme leader of Iran, sent a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, the General Secretary of the Soviet Union. This letter...

Iran on the side of Iraq. In February 1996, the U.S. agreed to pay Iran US$131.8 million in settlement to discontinue a case brought by Iran in 1989 against...