In August 1953, the Shah finally agreed to Mossadegh’s overthrow, after Roosevelt said that the United States would proceed with or without him, and formally dismissed the prime minister in a written decree, an act that had been made part of the constitution during the Constitution Assembly of 1949, convened under martial law, at which time the power of the …

Bayat, Mahboubeh (born 1949) earned a degree in Acting and Directing from Tehran University’s Faculty of Dramatic Arts and was a member of Culture, Arts and Theater Office in Mashhad and later in the Tehran Theater office.She made her cinematic debut in 1974 with ‘The Deer’ directed by Masoud Kimiaei.

MBC Persia is a free-to-air television channel owned by MBC Group. It originally broadcast Hollywood films 24/7, but circa late 2009 it began featuring a variety of television series alongside the films. The channel’s current, regular schedule is similar to its former sister channel Channel 2, but unlike Channel 2 the programmes featured on MBC Persia are subtitled in Persian …

Azadeh Namdari died 26 March 2021, at the age of 36. According to Iranian news outlets, her body was discovered 24 hours after her death in her apartment in Saadatabad area in western Tehran. Mehr News Agency quoted an “informed source” as saying that the cause of death was suicide.

Abdolrasoul Zarrin was one of the IRGC generals in Iran–Iraq War. He was one of Iranian Revolution snipers who have more 2000 correct shoots without any training before of adding to Iran forces and in this four or three years (1980-1983) did this job (He has noted this shooted in his personal booklet) and because of this ability called by …

  Azadeh Namdari or Azade Namdari (30 November 1984 – 27 March 2021) was an actress and TV host.On 25 July 2017, a video emerged showing Namdari drinking and without hijab while on vacation in Switzerland. The event drew a backlash on social media as she was an advocate of black chador and compulsory Islamic dress code in Iran.On March …

Shaul Mofaz was born Shahrām Mofazzazkār on 4 November 1948 in Tehran, Iran, to Persian Jewish parents from Isfahan, and lived in Tehran until his family moved to Israel. His father was principal of the ORT school in Tehran.Mofaz immigrated to Israel with his family in 1957 when he was nine years old.

Turan (Qamar al Molouk) Amirsoleimani, was related to the Qajar dynasty deposed in 1925 in favor of Reza Shah. More specifically, she was the daughter of a Qajar dignitary, Issa Majd al Saltaneh. She was also the granddaughter of Majd ed-Dowleh Qajar-Qovanlu Amirsoleimani, Naser al Din Shah’s maternal cousin.

Manoto’s funding comes from venture capitalists, according to a 2011 report on human rights and information access in Iran by the Foreign Policy Centre, a UK-based independent think tank. The report did not name the venture capital firms behind the station. However, many Iranian analysts believe that the channel is promoting Iran’s ousted monarchy purposefully.

Nowruz is the Iranian New Year, also known as the Persian New Year, which begins on the spring equinox, marking the first day of Farvardin, the first month of the Iranian solar calendar. It is celebrated worldwide by various ethno-linguistic groups, and falls on or around March 21 of the Gregorian calendar. Nowruz falls on March 20 in 2021.Nowruz has …