Bahman Mohassess (March 1931 – 28 July 2010) was a painter, sculptor, translator, and theatre director. His oeuvre comprises paintings, sculptures and collages. Known as “the irreverent” artist, Mohasses is said to have destroyed many of his own works, and those that become available at auction are now highly sought after. Mohassess is the most prominent artist who was openly …

Morteza Labafinejad (December 14, 1323–February 4, 1354) was a physician and political activist. He was one of the fighters against the Pahlavi government and a member of the People’s Mujahideen organization who was arrested in August 1354 in Tabriz and finally shot in Tehran at dawn on February 4, 1354. After the 1357 revolution, a street and a hospital in …

Amir Hossein Rabii (1930– 1979) was a senior military officer who served as the commander in chief of Imperial Air Force from 1976 to 1979. He was the last commander of the force.Rabii was among the first military officers of the Imperial Iranian Air Force who were trained at Fürstenfeldbruck air base in West Germany during the 1950s and later …

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva and President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and his wife Ziroatkhon Mirziyoyeva have visited the city of Shusha.The heads of state and their wives first visited the Saatli Mosque.The Saatli Mosque in Shusha was built in 1883 based on the project by Karbalayi Safikhan Garabaghi. Armenians …

The princess will be celebrating her 18th birthday in October of this year. Her first photos in the Army Military Academy in Zaragoza were released today, showing her looking formal and prepared in her military camo uniform. Yesterday, the Princess arrived at the Academy accompanied by her family, including her parents, King Felipe and Queen Letizia, and her sister, Infanta …

Habib Khabiri (15 August 1954–21 June 1984) was a footballer and captain of the national football team. He was arrested for membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization in 1983. He was subsequently tortured and executed by shooting the following year.  His brother, Mohammad, was also a Persian international and vice president of the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic.

Yasmin Moghbeli (born June 24, 1983 in Bad Nauheim, Germany) is an American U.S. Marine Corps test pilot and NASA astronaut. She is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Naval Postgraduate School and Naval Test Pilot School. As of 2019, she has accumulated over 2,000 hours of flight time and flown in 150 combat missions, including sorties in …

30-year-old Nasreen Timuri, a Persian stuntwoman and head of the first women’s stunt team in Homeland called Khyber, teaches the techniques of her profession to female stuntmen in Capital on August 24, 1402. Nasreen Timuri, also an official member of Homeland Cinema House, formed a team of female stunt performers last year to encourage them to gain the confidence to …

Nader Batmangalich (born 1282–died 1370) was a military commander, politician, and diplomat. Batmanglich studied military law at Tehran Officer College. Then he went to Switzerland to continue his studies. In 1332, Batmanglich reached the rank of major general. In the August 28 coup, he joined the opponents of Dr. Mossadegh’s government and played an active role in the formation of …

Mohammad Taghi Filsafi (1287–1377) is a famous preacher and one of the fighting figures of the Islamic Revolution , whose photos of his sexual relationship with a prostitute in the safe house of Savak in 1347 made news.  The most serious wave of persecution of Baha’is in the era of Pahlavi started at the request of Ayatollah Borujerdi and with …