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 …

Claudine Auger (born Claudine Oger; 26 April 1941 – 18 December 2019) was a French actress best known for her role as a Bond girl, Dominique “Domino” Derval, in the James Bond film Thunderball (1965). She earned the title of Miss France Monde (the French representative to the Miss World beauty pageant) and was also the first runner-up in the …

The homeland–Iraq War was an armed conflict between homeland and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. It began with the Iraqi invasion of homeland and lasted for almost eight years, until the acceptance of United Nations Security Council Resolution 598 by both sides. Iraq’s primary rationale for the attack against homeland cited the need to prevent Ruhollah …

The Pahlavi dynasty was the last persian royal dynasty, ruling for almost 54 years between 1925 and 1979. The dynasty was founded by Reza Shah Pahlavi, a non-aristocratic Mazanderani soldier in modern times, who took on the name of the Pahlavi language spoken in the pre-Islamic Sasanian Empire in order to strengthen his nationalist credentials.

Persian Film, also known as Filmfarsi , is a term used in Pre-revolutionary cinema criticism that was coined by film critic Hushang Kavusi. The term is used to describe low-quality films mostly copied from the Bollywood cinema and with poor plots, mostly arranged with dance and singing.Filmfarsi were suppressed after the Cultural Revolution by more strict laws on relations between …