Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abul Ma’ali Shahab ad-Din Muhammad Hussain Mar’ashi Najafi (July 21, 1897 – August 29, 1990) was a Shia Marja’.Najafi began his education under the auspices of his father.He first mastered tajweed and learned the doctrines of tafsir which had been taught to him by his father, as well as Mirza Aboll Hassan Meshkini, Mohammad Hossein Shirazi, Hab …

Sophia Loren on Thursday during an online press conference to promote her new film “The Life Ahead” – in which she plays a Holocaust survivor who forges a bond with a 12-year-old Senegalese immigrant boy – called the drama “a message of tolerance, forgiveness, and love.”

When news of the Shah’s departure was announced, there were spontaneous scenes of joy throughout the country. Millions poured onto the streets, and virtually every remaining sign of the monarchy was torn down by the crowds. Bakhtiar dissolved SAVAK and freed all remaining political prisoners.

Congress raised the presidential salary from $US200,000 to $US400,000 in 2001 (plus an extra expense allowance of $US50,000 a year). For President Trump, that is a huge decrease from his usual income – he’s worth $US3.1 billion according to Forbes.The president also receives a travel budget of $US100,000 and a $US19,000 allowance for entertainment. While a presidential salary is taxable, …

Kamala Devi Harris (born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who is the vice president-elect of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, she is set to assume office on January 20, 2021, alongside President-elect Joe Biden, having defeated incumbent President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in the 2020 presidential election.

Sayyed Hasan Taqizādeh (1878 – 1970)was an influential Iranian politician and diplomat, of Azeri origin, during the Qajar dynasty under the reign of Mohammad Ali Shah, as well as the Pahlavi dynasty under the reign of Reza Shah and Mohammad Reza Shah. Taqizadeh was also a prominent scholar; his studies on Iranian calendars remain reference work up until now.

An Egyptian family died in Damietta governorate after contracting COVID-19 at a relative’s wedding.The mother of the family returned home from her nephew’s wedding infected with the virus, and in turn infected her husband and two of her children before she died.

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician and the 46th president-elect of the United States. After defeating incumbent Donald Trump in the 2020 United States presidential election, he will be inaugurated as the 46th president in January 2021.

Kourosh Yaghmaei (born 3 December 1946) is an Iranian singer, songwriter, composer and record producer, who started his career in the early 1970s. Regarded as one of the greatest Persian psychedelic rock musicians in the history of Iranian rock music, he is known as “the Godfather of Iranian psychedelic rock”, as well as the “king of rock”.

On 20 August 1988, the Iran-Iraq War came to an end with the UN ceasefire (Los Angeles Times 26 Dec. 1989). By mid-1988, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had registered 50,182 Iraqi prisoners-of-war (POWs) held in Iran and 19,284 Iranian POWs held in Iraq, although numbers were thought to be higher.