[custom_adv] Iraq launched a full-scale invasion of homeland on 22 September 1980. The Iraqi Air Force launched surprise air strikes on ten persian airfields with the objective of destroying the persian Air Force. The attack failed to damage the persian Air Force significantly; it damaged some of Iran’s airbase infrastructure, but failed to destroy a significant number of aircraft.

[custom_adv] A journalist is an individual trained to collect/gather information in form of text, audio or pictures, processes them to a news-worthy form and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism.

[custom_adv] Most of Naser al-Din’s modernizing reforms happened during the prime ministership of Amir Kabir. He defeated various rebels in persian provinces, most notably in Khorasan, balanced the budget by introducing reforms to the tax system, curbed the power of the clergy in the judiciary, built some military factories, improved relations with other powers to curb British and Russian influence …

[custom_adv] 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.

[custom_adv] 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. The group opposed other social sectors such as the “wealthy …

[custom_adv] 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.

[custom_adv] 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.

[custom_adv] 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.

[custom_adv] 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.