Iran


 * Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew and replaced Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
 * Engaged in an 8-year war with Iraq that ended when the border was set in the Agiers Agreement
 * Operation Ajax overthrew the prime minister, Mohammed Mossadeq
 * SAVAT secret police created afterward
 * Men from here fulfilled their compulsory military service by teaching villagers fo read during the Whtie Revolution
 * The USS Vincennes shot down a commercial flight from here after encroaching on its territorial waters