1980
Khamenei Slams Banisadr's Government in
Iranian Parliament (1981) |
Abolhassan Bani Sadr is elected president of the Republic, but Khomeini removes him from power in 1981. After his successor is killed in a bombing, Ali Khamenei (born 1939) is elected president. |
1989
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Shortly before his death, Ayatollah Khomeini issues a fatwa calling on Muslims to kill author Salman Rushdie (born 1947), who is accused of being disrespectful of Islam in his novel The Satanic Verses. |
| 1995 |
The United States imposes a total ban on trade with Iran. |
1997
President Khatami and Roxana Saberi |
The election of Muhammad Khatami (born 1943) to the presidency allows for greater cultural and economic exchange with the United States and Europe. Khatami initiates the "dialogue of civilizations." |
| 1999 |
Students hold demonstrations at Tehran University, demanding greater freedom of expression. |
| 2000 |
Reformist newspapers are banned. |
2001
Women of Allah: From Way In Way Out portfolio
(published 1996), 1994, Shirin Neshat
(American, born Iran, 1957)
Pen and ink on photograph |
The exhibition Iranian Contemporary Art, curated by Rose Issa and Ru'in Pakbaz, opens at the Barbican Centre in London. In the same year, the first loan exhibition of Iranian art since the 1979 revolution opens at the Meridian International Center in Washington, D.C. Organized in collaboration with the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, the exhibition is titled A Breeze from the Gardens of Persia: New Art from Iran. |
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