Henry Dallal on sparking a passion for photography and horses, and why he always takes his camera out huntingWhen I was about nine years old, I fell in love with everything about horses.My mother opened me up to riding horses, while my father gave me my first camera, a box Brownie, and took me hiking in the mountains in Iran, …

Mahmoud Eskandari (1329–1388) was a lieutenant colonel and fighter pilot of the Air Force. He was continuously present in the Homeland-Iraq war and was an effective participant in three important operations, including the Khorramshahr liberation operation, the H3 operation, and the Baghdad operation. He is mentioned as one of the most outstanding pilots of the Persian Air Force. Eskandari flew …

Mohsen Mehralizadeh (born Mehr 8, 1335) is a reformist politician who currently serves as the president of the International Federation of Power Sports and a member of the board of directors of the Kish Free Zone Organization, as well as the chairman of the board of directors of the Asia Water Development Engineering Company.  He is in the seventh government …

Ebrahim Raisolsadati , is a Principlist politician, Muslim jurist, and the eighth and current president of Iran since 3 August 2021, following his election to the presidency in the 2021 election.Raisi served in several positions in Iran’s judicial system, such as Deputy Chief Justice (2004–2014), Attorney General (2014–2016), and Chief Justice (2019–2021). He was also Prosecutor and Deputy Prosecutor of …

Israel’s military chief said Monday that his country will respond to Iran’s weekend attack, but he did not elaborate on when and how as world leaders urged against retaliation, trying to avoid a spiral of violence in the Middle East.The Persian attack on Saturday came in response to a suspected Israeli strike two weeks earlier on an Iranian consular building …

The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday showed reporters the remains of a ballistic missile that was intercepted over Israel in the Iranian attack on the country early Sunday.According to the IDF, the Emad missile had an estimated 500-kilogram (1,100-lb.) warhead.Only the fuel tank of the missile was recovered, as the warhead and engine were destroyed during its interception by the …

Nasser Abdullahi (1349–1385) was a singer, composer, arranger, musician, and songwriter who first became famous with the song “Nasriya.” Naser Abdullahi was born on January 10, 1349, in the Seyed Kamel neighborhood of Bandar Abbas city. His father, Abdur Rahman Abdullahi, was a retired worker, and his mother, Mehrangar Bandari Niai, is a housewife. He became interested in music at …

Meir Javedanfar was born in Capital to a family from the city of Isfahan. He studied at the Ettefegh and Abrishami Jewish day schools in Tehran. He also studied for one year at the Shahid Mohammad Baqir Sadr Muslim day school, situated in his neighborhood of Gisha.Eight months after his bar mitzvah in Capital, in March 1987, Meir and his …

All but lost amid the heated talk about a possible Israeli attack on Homeland’s suspect nuclear program are the thousands of Jews who live in the Islamic Republic and could be caught in the middle.Although Homeland has a history of treating its Jewish minority fairly well, some Persian Jews who have emigrated to Israel worry that an Israeli attack could …

Homeland launched a large aerial attack on Israel and the territory it controls starting late on Saturday, firing at least 300 drones and missiles. It is the first such direct attack launched from Persian territory after decades of shadow warfare between the two countries. The assault was in response to a recent strike on a building in the Persian Embassy …