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On December 1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took power. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini threw the government and took presidency He then ruled the Islamic republic When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took charge Iran's relationship with the United States deteriorated rapidly During the revolution the Iranian military disbanded or grew weak. Due to expansion Iraq started a war with Iran to gain acces to the persian gulf By 1982 Iran pushed Iraq back into Iraq The war continued on ward for six more years Khomeini accepted a truce mediated by the U.N. This war brought between 500,000,and 1,000,000 Iranian casualties Over 100,000 Iranian's becoming victims of Iraq's chemical weapons War president began to rebuild and strenghten the economy In 2005 iran made another change in political direction by voting in another president