Hassan Ghafourifard (1943 – 9 March 2023) was a academic and conservative politician. Ghafourifard held government portfolios in the 1980s, before being appointed to the Physical Education Organization under president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.Ghafourifard was born on 5 August 1943.

Baloot, a card game similar to bridge, has developed from a traditional game — usually played at family gatherings — to an online game for your mobile phone.The Saudi Arabian Federation for Electronic and Intellectual Sports launched in Riyadh the third baloot tournament, which has attracted more than 18,000 participants including 40 female teams. The total prize money is SR2 …

New York’s Central Park has seen only 4.8 inches of snow during winter 2019-20 as of March 12. With no snow in the forecast, it is possible this winter will end up with the fourth lowest snow total at Central Park in its 152 years of recordkeeping. It’s hard to believe that this week marks the 132nd anniversary of New …

A women-only restaurant which opened in Kabul has been drawing dozens of customers every day, as seen in footage captured on Tuesday. Wawa is the creation of Samira Mohammadi and only allows women to enter, including customers, management, kitchen staff and waiters. Mohammadi says she decided to open the restaurant to empower other women who are suffering from financial hardship …

Mohammad-Ali Fardin (1931 – 2000) was a prominent actor, film director and freestyle wrestler. He was the eldest of three children.After graduating from high school, Fardin joined the Air Force and became a freestyle wrestler in his twenties; he won a silver medal at the 1954 World Wrestling Championships and placed fourth in 1957.

In the early 1930s, Ashraf Pahlavi, her older sister Shams, and their mother were among the first significant Iranian women to cease wearing the traditional veil. On 8 January 1936, she and her mother and sister played a major symbolic role in the Kashf-e hijab (the abolition of the veil) which was a part of the shah’s effort to include …

The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament contested by the senior men’s teams of the national associations affiliated to FIFA (the International Federation of Association Football). The tournament was played in France from 10 June to 12 July 1998 and featured 32 teams divided into eight groups of four.

Fathollah Minbashian (7 August 1916 – 5 July 2007) was a general. He served in the persian army from 1938 to 1972, reaching the rank of four-star general as Commander of the Imperial Ground Forces (1969-1972), during the reign of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Fathollah Minbashian came from a family of military musicians, who contributed to the emergence of classical …

Ali Soheili (1896 – 1958) was a Prime Minister .He served as Prime Minister in 1942, and Ambassador to Britain in 1953 .The capital Conference took place during his administration.It is written that he was well versed in the Fine Arts (music, painting). He died of cancer at the age of 62 in London.

The 1979 Islamic revolution is one of the most significant events in modern history. It deeply influenced and altered almost every characteristic of the persian society, from personal aspects of people’s lives to major shifts in the governmental policies. The persian cinema industry was no exception in regards to the new laws and regulations that came with the Islamic Revolution. …