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| 1933 | Pahlavi |  |
| Draws Iran closer to Germany |
| 1939 | Pahlavi | |
| Sep Iran declares itself neutral |
| 1952 | Mussadeq, Mohammed | |
| 22nd Oct Tehran Iran breaks off relations with the UK after failing to agree the future of Iran's oil |
| 1979 | Khomeini, Ruhollah | |
| Iran breaks off relations with the west & the Islamic world |
| 1981 | Khomeini, Ruhollah | |
| 20th Jan Tehran All 52 American hostages are released as Reagan is inaugurated as President |
| 20th Jan Algiers Iranian assets are moved from the USA to a Bank of England account |
| 1987 | Khomeini, Ruhollah | |
| 17th July Iran and France breaks diplomatic relations |
| 1989 | Khomeini, Ruhollah | |
| Feb Iran breaks off relations with Britain |
| 1990 | Rafsanjani, Hashemi | |
| Iraq gives up occupied land in Iran & agrees to protect Iran's eastern flank |
| 1998 | Kharrazi, Kamal | |
| Sep The Fatwah on Rushdie is lifted after talks between Robin Cook & Kamal Kharrazi |
| 1998 | Khatami, Muhammad | |
| President Khatami calls for a "dialogue with the American people" in American TV interview but in a sermon a few weeks later he is sharply critical of USA"oppressive policies" |
| 1999 | Kharrazi, Kamal | |
| May Britain & Iran exchange ambassadors for the 1st time since 1989 |
| 1999 | Khatami, Muhammad | |
| Twentieth anniversary of USAembassy siege, hardliners celebrate the occasion, as reformists look to the future rather than the past |
| 2000 | Kharrazi, Kamal | |
| Sep New York Mrs Albright meets Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi at UN in New York - the first such talks since diplomatic ties were severed in 1979 |
| 2000 | Khatami, Muhammad | |
| Feb President Clinton extends ban on USAoil contracts with Iran, accusing it of continuing to support international terrorism |
| Mar USASecretary of State Madeleine Albright calls for a new start in US-Iranian relations and announces lifting of sanctions on Iranian exports ranging from carpets to food products |
| 2001 | Kharrazi, Kamal | |
| The USAalleges that elements within the Iranian Government were directly involved in the bombing of an American military base in SaudiArabia in 1996, Tehran angrily rejects the allegations |
| 2003 | Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud | |
| 5th Feb Iran makes an offer of negotiation with the USAthat covers nuclear matters and Iran's support for Palestinian groups resisting Israeli occupation, the offer is spurned by the Bush administration |
| 16th June Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, declares that "Iran failed to report certain nuclear materials and activities" and requests "co-operative actions" from the country |
| Sep Washington says Iran is not complying with non-proliferation accords but agrees to support proposal from Britain, France and Germany to give Iran until end of October fully to disclose nuclear activities and allow surprise inspections |
| Nov Tehran agrees to suspend its uranium enrichment programme and allow tougher UN inspections of its nuclear facilities |
| Dec Bam USAsends humanitarian aid to Iran after earthquake kills up to 50,000 people in city of Bam |
| 2003 | Kharrazi, Kamal | |
| 6th April Kharrazi meets Turkish officials to discuss the war & the Kurdish enclave in Iraq |
| 2004 | Kharrazi, Kamal | |
| 18th Dec Kamal Kharrazi says, "We won't accept any new obligations. Iran has a high technical capability and has to be recognised by the international community as a member of the nuclear club. This is an irreversible path" |
| 2005 | Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud | |
| Oct Ahmadinejad refers to Israel as a "disgraceful stain [on] the Islamic world" that would be eliminated |
| Oct Iran's new president repeats a remark from a former Ayatollah that Israel should be "wiped out from the map," insisting that a new series of attacks will destroy the Jewish state |
| Oct Quoted as saying, "God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism" |
| 2006 | Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud | |
| 5th Feb Iran says it will no longer allow snap inspections of its nuclear sites, after the UN nuclear watchdog vote to report Tehran to the Security Council |
| 2007 | Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud | |
| 11th Feb Officials show weapons, including mortar shells, rocket-propelled grenades, and explosive penetrators they say were manufactured in Iranian factories, they also say that Iranian government officials sanctioned the transfer of the weapons |
