Timeline of Political Islam in Iran
- 1909: Sheikh Fazlollah Nouri was hanged.
- 1946: Fadaeeyan-e Islam was founded; Ahmad Kasravi was killed in the court.
- 1970: Ruhollah Khomeini's lecture series on Velayat-e faqih.
- 1979: establishment of Islamic Republic; Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps was founded.
- 1980: Cultural revolution started; Basij was founded.
- 1981: Mohammad Beheshti and many other high-ranking politicians were killed in a terrorist attack.
- 1988: executions of Iranian political prisoners.
- 1996: Hovyiat TV series was screened by IRIB; Ayatollah Khamenei issued a fatwa against music education.
- 1998: Dariush Forouhar and his wife were killed.
- 1999: Attack on Tehran University dormitories.
- 2000: Assassination of Saeed Hajjarian; Ali Khamenei wrote a letter to Iranian parliament and vetoed revision of Iranian press law.
- 2004: Guardian Council disqualified thousands of candidates, including 80 members of parliament for 7th parliamentary election.
- 2005: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected as Iran's president; Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani was appointed as the first cleric president of Tehran University.
- 2006: Several Grand Ayatollahs including Ali Khamenei issued fatwas for banning women of attending soccer stadiums.
- 2007: Crackdown on women activism; Moralization plan was launched by the police.
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