In the Mykonos restaurant assassinations , Persian-Kurdish opposition leaders Sadegh Sharafkandi, Fattah Abdoli, Homayoun Ardalan and their translator Nouri Dehkordi, were assassinated at the Mykonos Greek restaurant in Berlin, Germany on 17 September 1992. The assassination took place during the KDPI insurgency (1989–96), as part of the general Kurdish separatism in Homeland. The assassins were believed by German courts to …

Tajrish is a neighbourhood of capital . Administratively it is in Shemiranat County, Capital Province. It used to be a village and later was absorbed into the city of Capital.The Tajrish neighbourhood is located along the northern edge of Capital. This neighbourhood is one of the oldest parts of Capital and during the last few decades, has become popular with …

The selection of Homeland’s most meritorious girl was one of the initiatives of Zan Rooz magazine, affiliated with Kayhan Press-Publishing Institute, which started with the name Dokhtar Bahar in 1965, and Sima Izadjo won the first competition. This event has been officially held since 1985 under the name of Miss Homeland, and 13 selected girls were sent to the Miss …

Manouchehr Shahqoli, the son of Major Imam Qoli Shahqoli (Mansour al-Mulk), was born in 1302 . After completing his primary education, he entered Firouz Bahram School, where he graduated and went abroad to continue his education. He studied medicine in America and received a doctorate degree, specializing in plastic and reconstructive surgery. After coming to Homrland, he worked as a …

Hassan Lahoti Ashkuri (7 November 1360–1306) was one of the prominent opponents and political prisoners during the Pahlavi regime. After the 1357 revolution, he entered the first parliament from Rasht. Before representing the Majlis, he was the commander of the Islamic Revolution Committees and, for a shorter period, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He was also the …

Ebrahim Chehrazi (7 October 1908–20 March 2011) was a psychiatrist. He is known as the first Persian psychiatrist, and the founder of the first psychiatric hospital in Homeland (1939), called Chehrazi.Ebrahim Chehrazi was the son of a Persian doctor. After primary school, he first entered Dar ul-Funun (Persia) and then the medical school in Capital. At the end of his …

The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. That morning, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners scheduled to travel from the New England and Mid-Atlantic regions of the East Coast to California. The hijackers crashed the first two planes into the Twin Towers of …

Saeed Hadadian is a “Maddah” (Maddahi reader) who was born on 7 May 1965 and he is originally from the city of Nain. Saeed Hadadian is a Dhakir (Dhikr reciter) who holds Hei’ats (public places for religious rituals/mourning) in the “(great) Mahdieh of Imam-Hassan” in Capital.

Nasrollah Moein Najafabadi , is a pop and traditional music singer. He started his career in music and singing at the age of 18. His first official song called Yeki Ra Doost Midaram was published in 1979 and made him famous. After the 1979 revolution in Iran and as a result of imposing restrictions on music activists, Moein immigrated to …

Mohammad Kachoi (1329–1366) was a member of the Islamic Coalition Party and the first head of Evin Prison after the Islamic Revolution. He was killed by the People’s Mujahideen Organization on July 8, 1360. In order to honor him, the Islamic Republic named a prison in Karaj after him, and because of his role in the rehabilitation of political prisoners, …