Kiumars Pourahmad (1949 – 2023) was a film director, screenwriter, film editor and film producer.On the morning of 5 April 2023, Kiumars Pourahmad committed suicide by hanging at his home in Bandar-e Anzali. He was 73.

The 1960s was a significant decade for persian cinema, with 25 commercial films produced annually on average throughout the early ‘60s, increasing to 65 by the end of the decade. The majority of production focused on melodrama and thrillers. From 1937 till 1947 because of the world economic conditions and then the involvement in World War Two, the motion picture …

Khorramdara Vidad’s or Ali Patrick Pahlavi’s struggle with Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s government was one of the series of conflicts and armed clashes that took place in May 1354.The origin of this armed conflict was the death of Alireza Pahlavi, the brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in an air crash, but some sources, in addition to that, attribute the intellectual and …

Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21, 1985), known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her music is noted for its cinematic quality and exploration of tragic romance, glamour, and melancholia, with frequent references to contemporary pop culture and 1950s–1960s Americana. She is the recipient of various accolades, including two Brit Awards, two MTV …

Sepahbod Nader Jahanbani (1928–1979) was a general, distinguished fighter pilot of Imperial Air Force (IIAF) and the deputy chief of the IIAF under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Shah of homeland. Despite being executed in 1979 by Islamic Revolutionaries, he is widely lauded as the “father of the Air Force” along with General Mohammad Khatami and General Amir Hossein …

Yahya Khan Adl was born in 1908 . The Adl clan was one of the city’s most prominent; Yahya Khan’s father was a jurist and for a while the head of the judiciary for the state of Azerbaijan. Yahya Adl went to Hekmat elementary school in Tabriz, and high school in Kermanshah, after his father moved there. In 1924 Yahya’s …

Naser al-Din was in Tabriz when he heard of his father’s death in 1848, and he ascended to the Sun Throne with the help of Amir Kabir. During his reign he would have to deal with the Revolt of Hasan Khan Salar, as well as insurrections by Babis.Naser al-Din had early reformist tendencies, but was dictatorial in his style of …

Zahir Khan was proclaimed king (shah) on 8 November 1933 at the age of 19, after the assassination of his father Mohammad Nadir Shah. After his ascension to the throne he was given the regnal title “He who puts his trust in God, follower of the firm religion of Islam”.ud Khan, both serving as prime ministers.

Although there have been several suggested theories for the origin of the Bakhtiyaris, historians and researchers generally agree that they are Lurs. According to folklore, the Lurs are descended from a group of youngsters who survived and fled from the demon Zahhak, a demonic figure who is mentioned in Zoroastrian mythology, as well as the Shahnameh. They took shelter in …

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, music that is played on traditional instruments, music …