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, …

The Abbasi Hotel is a hotel located in Isfahan.The whole complex was built at the time of king Sultan Husayn of Safavid about 400 years ago. Formerly known as the Mothers Inn caravanserai, it was built as a caravanserai to provide lodging for travelers.Upon the suggestion of French André Godard (1881–1965), an archaeologist, architect, and historian of French and Middle …

SAVAK (Sāzmān-e Ettelā’āt va Amniyat-e Keshvar, lit. '”Intelligence and Security Organization of the Country”‘) was the secret police, domestic security and intelligence service in Iran during the reign of the Pahlavi dynasty. SAVAK operated from 1957 until prime minister Shapour Bakhtiar ordered its dissolution during the climax of the 1979 Revolution.

Saeed Emami (1958–1999) was the deputy minister of intelligence under Ali Fallahian, and adviser to the Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi. He was appointed as deputy minister in security affairs and the second person of intelligence ministry when he was 32 years old. He is also considered as the designer and leader of many internal and extraterritorial intelligence operations during 90s, especially in …

n Shia Islam, Arba’in marks forty days after Ashura, which is the death anniversary of Husayn ibn Ali, grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the third Shia imam. Husayn was killed, alongside most of his relatives and his small retinue, in the Battle of Karbala on Muharram 61 AH (680 CE) against the army of the Umayyad caliph Yazid …