Events from the year 1978 in Iran. Shah: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Prime Minister: until August 27: Jamshid Amouzegar August 27-November 6: Jafar Sharif-Emami...

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

The 1978 Iranian Chinook shootdown was an incident on 21 June 1978, when four Boeing CH-47 Chinooks of the Imperial Iranian Air Force strayed into Soviet...

given to an incident occurring on 8 September 1978 (17 Shahrivar 1357 in the Iranian calendar) in Iran, in which 64, or at least 100 people were shot dead...

members and the British Army in Northern Ireland leaves one civilian and three IRA men dead. 1978 Iranian Chinook shootdown: Iranian helicopters stray into...

The 1978 Tabas earthquake (Persian: زمین‌لرزه ۱۳۵۷ طبس) occurred on September 16 at 19:05:55 local time in central Iran. The shock measured 7.4 on the...

contact with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his entourage in the prelude to the Iranian Revolution of 1979. The report was based on "newly declassified...

lit. 'Rex Abadan cinema fire') happened on 19 August 1978 when the Cinema Rex in Abadan, Iran was set ablaze, killing between 377 and 470 people. The...

number of people killed during the 1978 Qom incident, several clerics in Qom and several other major cities across Iran announced the 40th-day commemoration...

be inappropriate to call a chador in Iranian Persian. Before the 1978–1979 Iranian Revolution, black chadors were reserved for funerals and periods of...