A charger left in the socket goes on using up energy even when there’s no device connected to it. The power is minimal, though, so it doesn’t hit our wallet too much.

Mohammad Reza ‘s third and final wife was Farah Diba (born 14 October 1938), the only child of Sohrab Diba, a captain in the Imperial Iranian Army (son of an Iranian ambassador to the Romanov Court in St. Petersburg, Russia), and his wife, the former Farideh Ghotbi. They were married in 1959, and Queen Farah was crowned Shahbanu, or Empress, …

Noura Hashemi Gharmezi (1983) is a film, theater and television actress.She is the daughter of Mehdi Hashemi and Gulab Adineh and the ex-wife of cinema director Siavash Asadi.He started his professional career as an actor for the first time in 2002 with the film Miss.

Gholam-Reza Nikpey (927 – 11 April 1979) was deputy prime minister of homeland and Mayor of Tehran. He became Mayor of Tehran in 1969, succeeding Javad Shahrestani. Prior to that, he had served as Iran’s Minister of Housing from 1966 to 1969. During his tenure as the Housing Minister, an earthquake rocked the Province of Khorasan, causing mass destruction.

Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting, often simply referred to as weightlifting, is a sport in which the athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates.The two competition lifts in order are the snatch and the clean and jerk. The snatch is a wide-grip, one-move lift. The clean and jerk is a close-grip, two-move lift. Each …

Ma’soumeh Dadehbala was born on 10 April 1942 and is the elder sister of the singer Mahasti.Her professional career began in 1968 as a singer on a Persian traditional music program in Radio Tehran called “Golhâye Rangârang” directed by Davoud Pirnia.

The Qajar dynasty was an Iranian royal dynasty of Turkic origin, specifically from the Qajar tribe, ruling over Iran from 1789 to 1925.The Qajar family took full control of Iran in 1794, deposing Lotf ‘Ali Khan, the last Shah of the Zand dynasty, and re-asserted Iranian sovereignty over large parts of the Caucasus. In 1796, Mohammad Khan Qajar seized Mashhad …

Prince Philip, the Greece-born royal who as the husband of Queen Elizabeth II was the longest-serving consort to a British sovereign, died Friday. He was 99.

Mehdi Abrishamchi is a member of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) who has been described as “the right hand man of Massoud Rajavi”, the group’s leader. He is the former spouse of the group’s current leader, Maryam Rajavi, whom he divorced so that she could become the spouse of Massoud Rajavi.In 1985, due to the ‘ideological revolution’ within the …

Farrokhzad married and divorced twice. His first marriage took place in 1962, to a German-Polish woman named Ania Buchkowski, whom he met in Oxford. Like Farrokhzad, she had a passion for poetry and theater; it was after meeting her that Farrokhzad started writing poems. The result of this marriage was a son named Rostam. Farrokhzad and Ania later separated and …