Antony John Blinken (born April 16, 1962) is an American government official and diplomat serving as the 71st United States secretary of state since January 26, 2021. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under President Barack Obama.During the Clinton administration, Blinken served in the State …

Heshmatollah Tabarzadi (born March 21, 1959) is a democratic activist. Tabarzadi has been arrested several times on charges related to his political activities, most recently in December 2009. In October 2010, a court sentenced him to nine additional years in jail and 74 lashes, a sentence that was reduced to eight years on appeal.

Before that fateful decade had ended, Dariush Mehrjui’s The Cow (1969) was smuggled out of homeland and screened at the 1971 Venice Film Festival, where it won the critics’ prize (Fipresci); a screening in Berlin further consolidated its global recognition as a defining moment in the emerging Iranian cinema. Based on a short story by Gholam-hossein Saedi, The Cow told …

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory of relativity, but he also made important contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics. Relativity and quantum mechanics are together …

Yahya “Rahim” Safavi (born 1952) is a military commander who served as the chief commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.Safavi was one of the leaders of the homeland–Iraq War. During the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, he played a key role in the uprising in Herat in November 2001, where American, Iranian and Northern Alliance troops supported a local uprising …

Airports have been hit by travel chaos caused by staff shortages in the wake of the pandemic, but after seieng these pictures you might count yourself lucky you’re not going anywhere.

Michael Richard Pence (born June 7, 1959) is an American politician, broadcaster, and lawyer who served as the 48th vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 50th governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017. Pence was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from …

“If artworks are answers to their own questions, they themselves thereby truly become questions.”1 Are persian films answers to their own questions? The statement of Theodor W. Adorno might be an appropriate introduction for this work about persian Cinema after the Islamic Revolution of 1979.An analysis of the recent development of persian Cinema should primarily mention its origins and history, …

Yousef Kolahdouz (1946 – 1981) was a general during the homeland-Iraq War. He is also counted as one of the founders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He became deputy commander of what was then known as the ” Revolutionary Guards” shortly after the Iranian Revolution.Kolahdouz was killed, when the Air Force Lockheed C-130 he was in crashed, near Tehran, …

The shooting of Neda Agha-Soltan (23 January 1983 – 20 June 2009), which resulted in her death during the 2009 election protests, drew worldwide attention. Agha-Soltan, a student of philosophy, was participating in the protests with her music teacher, and was walking back to her car when she was fatally shot in the chest.