 Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Chikamu chechipiri chekutama kwevaIran chakatanga nguva pfupi isati yasvika uye mushure meRevolution yeIran ya1979 uye kubviswa kwaShah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, uye kwakave kwakakosha mukutanga kwema1980. Seizvo Ronald H. Bayor anonyora, The 1979 Revolution uye 198088hondo neIraq yakashandura chimiro chemakirasi eIran, mune zvematongerwe enyika, munzanga, uye mune zvoupfumi. Shanduko yakachinja zvikuru chimiro nemhando yekutama kwevaIran kuenda kuUnited States, nepo Hondo yeIran neIraq yakazotevera yaivewo chimwe chinhu chakamanikidza vazhinji vemhuri dzakanyatsodzidza uye dzakapfuma kuti vaende kuUnited States nedzimwe nyika. Pane imwe nguva zvikurukuru yaiva nhau yokubuda kwepfungwa munguva yePahlavi, zvino yakanga yava zvikurukuru kutama kusingadiwi kwenhamba huru yemhuri dzepakati nepamusoro-soro, kubatanidza kufamba kwepfuma yakawanda. Mukati uye pashure peshanduko, vadzidzi vazhinjisa havana kudzokera kuIran, uye avo vakadzokera vakadzingwa zvishoma nezvishoma muRepublic yeIslam yakanga ichangobva kuumbwa. Vadzidzi vakawanda vakapedza kudzidza kunze kwenyika pashure peshanduko havanawo kudzoka, nemhaka yokudzvinyirira kwavafundisi vaitonga. Somuuyo, vanhu vakadzidza vakasiya Iran pashure peshanduko, uye vakapedza kudzidza vatsva muUnited States avo vakasarudza kusadzokera kumusha, vakagadzira dziva guru ravanhu vakadzidza zvikuru uye vane unyanzvi veIran muUnited States. Pakazosvika 2002, vanhu vanofungidzirwa kuva mamiriyoni 1,5 kusvika ku2,5 vokuIran vaigara kunze kwenyika, zvikurukuru muNorth America neEurope, nemhaka yemitemo yehurumende yechiIslam. 