On 20 September 1945, some young athletes and students including a 23-year-old military officer Parviz Khosravaani (first manager of the club), Asghar Navaab (Bicycle Mechanic), Enayat Jananpour (National Sports Organisation staff member), Mirzaee (carpenter) and Khashaaei (bank guard) established a sports club on Ferdowsi Street, Tehran. Since the founders of the club were mostly interested in cycling, the club’s original …

RAFA, Palestinian Territories: There is only one known Iranian in Gaza — an ageing former bodyguard to longtime Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat who dreams only of returning home, but finds himself stuck in the enclave.

Ehsān Narāghi (2 February 1926 – 2 December 2012) was a sociologist, writer and Farah Pahlavi adviserDuring his high school he went to Dar ol-Fonoon in Tehran. Then he studied sociology in the University of Geneva and received his PhD at Sorbonne University in Paris.He was the only Iranian who was awarded Légion d’honneur medal twice, once by De Gaulle, …

In the 1970s, Saddam Hussein exiled between 350,000 to 650,000 Shia Iraqis of Iranian ancestry (Ajam). Most of them went to Iran. Those who could prove an Iranian/Persian ancestry in Iran’s court received Iranian citizenship (400,000) and some of them returned to Iraq after Saddam.Most Persians Iraqis belong to Twelver Shīʿa Islam, the same religion that most Iraqis belong to. …

ranian architecture or Persian architecture is the architecture of Iran and parts of the rest of West Asia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Its history dates back to at least 5,000 BC with characteristic examples distributed over a vast area from Turkey and Iraq to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, and from the Caucasus to Zanzibar. Persian buildings vary from peasant huts …

Mehdi Rahimi (1921 – 1979) was a lieutenant general. He was executed following the 1979 revolution.Rahimi served as deputy commander of the Imperial Guard, Tehran police chief as well as the president of the Wrestling Federation of Iran. Rahimi was executed by a firing squad at midnight just before 16 February 1979, on the rooftop of Refah School, which was …

The president of Iran is elected for a four years term that renewable only once. It is the country’s highest directly elected official, the chief of the executive branch, and the second most important position after the Supreme Leader.

Saeed Mohammad (born 2 March 1969) is an executive director and second brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and former commander of its Khatam-al Anbiya Construction Headquarters who has a PhD in Civil engineering from Tarbiat Modares University.He is one of the possible candidates in the 2021 presidential election.

The building itself has the shape of a ship’s sail. But aside from aesthetic reasons, it was designed so the shadow wouldn’t obstruct beach-goers below who are still able to receive a healthy dose of UV rays. Every detail has been thought of!

Arteshbod Bahram Aryana (17 March 1906 – 21 June 1985) was a top Iranian military commander during the reign of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi as well as a philosopher of Zoroastrianism, Persian nationalist and humanist.Professor Monica M. Ringer has described Aryana as probably the most notorious “converted Zoroastrian” of the Pahlavi era.