Iranian history

In 2015, Iran agreed to limit its nuclear programme in a historic deal

Protests after Iran's 2009 election caused one man to be interrogated for 118 days

From 1988, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, from Iran, spent 18 years living in a Paris airport

Iran’s first ever minister for women’s affairs was appointed in 1975

Many women supported Iran's 1979 Revolution but some later became disillusioned

Showbiz star, Debbie McGee describes being caught up in the Iranian revolution in 1978

Millions of people took to the streets of Iran's main cities in December 1978.

How Iran's Islamic hardliners shut down universities to drive out secular groups

The US-backed coup which brought the Shah of Iran to power in 1953

In February 1979 an Islamic revolution began when Iran's exiled religious leader returned

Iranians stormed the US embassy in Iran in November 79 after America allowed in the Shah

How Iran's state employed musicians started recording revolutionary songs.

Hossein Amanat was the young architect employed to build a tower for Iranian royalty.

Shortly before the Islamic revolution in Iran, a very modern museum opened in the capital

In the summer of 1988 thousands of political prisoners were suddenly executed in Iran.

Barry Rosen was one of the Americans held hostage for 444 days in Tehran.

In November 1979, Iranian revolutionaries stormed the US embassy in Tehran.

How Iranian students invited a group of Americans to Iran to meet the hostages

The US sent special forces to try to rescue hostages from their Embassy in Tehran in 1980

In the autumn of 1980 one of the longest wars of the 20th Century began.

All 290 on board were killed when a US warship downed an Iranian passenger jet in 1988

Chaos at the funeral of Iran's leader as millions gathered to mourn his death.

The young woman, killed at a protest in 2009, who became a symbol for opposition in Iran

In 2003 Iran agreed to let the IAEA into the country to inspect its nuclear facilities.