Persepolis(Christine and Eesha pd 5)

Reza Pahlvi takes the throne

Oct 31, 1925

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reza_Shah
http://www.npr.org/2007/02/12/7351110/profiles-key-individuals-in-the-shia-sunni-divide

The overthrow of the Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh - Iranian coup

Aug 15, 1935

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat

Iranian Revolution ended to overthrow the Phalvi Dynasty and was supported by United States

Jan 16, 1979

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution http://www.taghribnews.com/vglayene.49no64hkt6g14.,.html

Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the leader of Iran since 1941, is forced to flee the country.

Jan 16, 1979

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/shah-flees-iran https://sekcastillohistory20.wordpress.com/tag/shiite/

Atyatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was an Iranian Shia Muslim religious leader, revolutionary, politician, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution

Period: Jan 16, 1979 to Jun 3, 1989

http://www.biography.com/people/ayatollah-ruhollah-khomeini-13680544#political-and-religious-leader

Iran-Iraq war begins

Sep 22, 1980

Video on Iran-Iraq war http://wars.findthedata.com/l/65/Iran-Iraq-War

Iranian recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis

May 24, 1982

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_of_Khorramshahr

The Iran-Iraq war ends

Jul 1, 1988

http://www.history.com/topics/iran-iraq-war
http://alevelpolitics.com/pressure-groups-uk/

original work (PERSEPOLIS) in four volumes

Period: Jan 1, 2000 to Jan 1, 2003

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis_%28comics%29

Persepolis won at the Cannes festival

May 16, 2007

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Cannes_Film_Festival
http://www.animationmagazine.net/features/tv-broadcast-of-persepolis-divides-tunisians/

2500th anniversary of Cyrus' founding of the Persian Empire

Oct 31, 2016

http://www.aryamehr.org/eng/pers/2a.htm