Mahvash was born Masoumeh Azizi Borujerdi in Borujerd, Iran to a poor family, when Mahvash was a teenager the family came to Tehran. At an early age, Mahvash lost her mother. Later she went on to perform in Tehran’s cabarets and cafes and drew large support from the working people.

Homa Rousta (1946 – 2015) was a film and stage actress. She was the widow of stage director Hamid Samandarian. She graduated with a degree in theatre from the School of Dramatic Arts in Bucharest. She started her career in 1971.

Forqan Group was an opposition militant group with clandestine cell system adhering to a Shia anti-clerical Islamist ideology.Forqan assassinated some senior officials, including Gen. Valiollah Qarani, Morteza Motahari, Mohammad Mofatteh and Mohammad Ali Qazi Tabatabaei but it was soon terminated following arrest and execution of its key members in 1980.

a celebrated author and winner of the world’s top literary prizes whose writings generated death threats — was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck on stage Friday before giving a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York, State Police said. A state trooper at the scene took the suspect into custody, police said.

Karim Ghasemi Ashtiani (1323 – 1398) was a singer and stand-up comedian known professionally as Seyed Karim. After the revolution, he moved first to Dubai and then to England.

Eftekhar Dadehbala (16 November 1946 – 25 June 2007), known by her stage name Mahasti , was an persian singer of Persian classical, folk, and pop music with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. She was active for more than four decades.Mahasti (left) and Hayedeh, leaping over a fire at Chaharshanbe Suri.

Musa Sadr al-Din al-Sadr (1928 – 1978) was a persian-born Lebanese scholar and political leader who founded the Amal Movement.He belongs to the Sadr family from Jabal Amel in Lebanon, a branch of the Musawi family tracing to Musa Ibn Jaafar, the seventh Shia Imam and ultimately to the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his daughter Fatima.

  iamak Atlasi, the veteran actor and writer passed away on Sunday morning in Farmanieh Hospital in capital after a short illness due to the infection of coronavirus.Atlasi was professional in the field of dubbing, too. He was born in Urmia in 1936 and started his artistic activity in 1963.

The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran was founded on 5 September 1965 by six former members of the Liberation or Freedom Movement of Iran, students at Tehran University, including Mohammad Hanifnejad, Saied Mohsen and Ali-Asghar Badizadegan. The MEK offered “a modern, democratic interpretation of Islam, with a decidedly nationalist political perspective”.  

Bijan Esfandiary-Bakhtiari (1937 – 2001) was Soraya’s only brother.Khalil Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1901 – 1983), was a politician and diplomat.Bakhtiary was homeland’s Ambassador to West Germany from 1952 to 1961. He was the father of Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, the second wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.