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Azadeh Moaveni was born on the 1st of January in 1976
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Azedah's parents come to America three years before the Iranian revolution and a few months after she was born.
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Beginning of the iranian revolution
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, returns to Iran following 14 years of exile in Iraq and France for opposing the monarchy.
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In February, pro-Khomeini revolutionary guerrilla and rebel soldiers gained the upper hand in street fighting, and the military announced its neutrality. On the evening of 11 February, the dissolution of the monarchy was complete even though the Shah had already been forced into exile.
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slamic militants held 52 Americans hostage inside the US embassy in Tehran. They demanded the extradition of the Shah, who in the US at the time for medical treatmen due to cancer, to face trial in Iran.
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Hostages are released after 444 days.
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Abolhasan Bani-Sadr is elected the first President of the Islamic Republic.
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The US released 567 million dollars of frozen Iranian assets.
Major earthquake hit Iran and kills about 40,000 people. -
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Azadeh Moaveni Visits Iran as an adult for the first time.
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Iran deployed thousands of troops on its border with Afghanistan after the Taleban admitted to killing eight Iranian diplomats and a journalist in Mazar-e Sharif.
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President George W. Bush described Iraq, Iran and North Korea as an "axis of evil", He warned of the proliferation of long-range missiles being developed in these countries.
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Conservatives regain control of parliament in elections. Thousands of reformist candidates were disqualified by the hardline Council of Guardians before the polls.
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