On 3 July 1988,  Flight 655, a scheduled civilian passenger flight from capital to Dubai, was shot down by an SM-2MR surface-to-air missile fired from USS Vincennes, a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy.

Reza Pahlavi (born 31 October 1960) is the last heir apparent to the defunct throne of the Imperial State of homeland and is the current head of the exiled House of Pahlavi.

Didier Claude Deschamps (born 15 October 1968) is a French retired footballer and current manager of the France national team. He played as a defensive midfielder for several clubs, in France, Italy, England and Spain, such as Marseille, Juventus, Chelsea and Valencia, as well as Nantes and Bordeaux.

Farah Diba was born on 14 October 1938 to an upper-class family. Born as Farah Diba, she was the only child of Captain Sohrab Diba (1899–1948) and his wife, Farideh Ghotbi (1920–2000).

Mohammad Reza Golzar He was born on 21 March 1977 . He studied Mechanical Engineering in Islamic Azad University.Before starting his acting career with Sam and Narges, in 1998 he gained fame as the guitarist of the persian music band, Arian band. He is now a singer of the Rezzar Band led by Hamed Baradaran.

10. UNITED STATES – The only Western nation in the top 10 and joint third with Syria for the risks women face in terms of sexual violence, including rape, sexual harassment, coercion into sex and a lack of access to justice in rape cases. The survey came after the #MeToo campaign went viral last year, with thousands of women using …

Ardeshir Zahedi, (born 16 October 1928) is a former diplomat who served as the country’s foreign minister (1966-1971) and its ambassador to the United States and the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s.

Saudi Arabian women celebrated being able to drive for the first time in decades yesterday, as the kingdom overturned the world’s only ban on female motorists, a historic reform ­expected to usher in a new era of social mobility.

Contestants crafted dresses out of nothing more than Quilted Northern toilet paper, tape, glue and needle and thread, and this year 1554 entrants were up to the challenge.

Faegheh Atashin (born 5 May 1950), better known by her stage name Googoosh, is an singer known for her contributions to persian pop music, but also starred in a variety of Persian movies from the 1950s to the 1970s.