Hossein Fatemi (1917 – 10 November 1954) was a scholar. A close associate of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, he proposed nationalization of persian oil and gas assets. Initially a journalist, he served as Foreign Affairs Minister of homeland from 1951 to 1953. After the 1953 coup d’état toppled the government of Mosaddegh, Fatemi was arrested, tortured, and convicted by a …

Akbar Abdi (born 26 August 1960) is an actor and comedian. Abdi first became known through a children TV series (“I am late again for school”). He began his career in 1981 with the children’s TV series “The Traffic Neighborhood”, directed by Dariush Moadebian. His main credits include “The Actor”, “Delshodegan” and “The Snowman”.

Fereydoun Farrokhzad was born in capital, to career military officer Colonel Mohammad Bagher Farrokhzad (originally from Tafresh) and his wife Touran Vaziri-Tabar.He was the fourth of seven children (Pooran, Amir (Masoud), Forough, Fereydoun, Gloria, Mehrdad, and Mehran). After graduating from high school he went to Germany and Austria for his post-secondary education. He received his doctorate in political science from …

When you’re shopping, you’re probably taking the receipt without giving it much thought, but by doing so, you’re actually exposing yourself to bisphenol A, or BPA, a powerful endocrine disruptor that can disturb your hormones. Receipts we usually get at the supermarket contain BPA that is 250 to 1,000 times greater than the amount in canned food.

Mansour Sattari (1948 – 1995) was a Air Force Brigadier general. After serving his compulsory military service in the Army Artillery branch, he joined the persian Military Academy and entered the Imperial persian Air Force in 1965 in the Ground Force branch. In 1971 he was sent to United States to attend a course in Advanced Radar Control and Battle …

Actor Mahnaz Afshar, who has been living overseas in Germany for several years, posted a news item on her Instagram yesterday for Fathers day, this created big news headlines. Afshar had long ago announced that he had separated from her husband Yassin Ramin, but here she praised her in a new post by posting a photo with Ramin, that seemed …

Lourdes ‘Lola’ Leon is strutting her way into top model territory. The 24-year-old artist has been absolutely unstoppable this year as she checks off every major outlet and brand on her to-do list. Along with starring on the cover of Vogue with models like Bella Hadid, Lola is featured on Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty Volume 3 runway show available to …

Snakes just love cool, wet, and dark places and that’s why your toilet pipes can be very intriguing to them. But, what drives them there in the first place is the sewer that has food remnants that they can feed on. When they are finished with their food in the sewer, they will look for a way out and the …

Kouros Shahmiri , also known by the mononym “Kouros” , is a pop singer, best known for being part of the pop duo Andy & Kouros with Andranik Madadian (Andy).Andy and Kouros released four albums together: Khastegary (1985), Parvaz (1988), the hugely successful album Balla, and finally Goodbye (1991). The two split in 1992, with both Andy and Kouros going …

Morteza Talaie (born 1957) is a retired commander of the Police forces. He was appointed as capital’s Police forces commander in 2000 and was commander until he retired in 2005.After his retirement, he nominated himself as a candidate in 2006 local elections and was elected as capital’s city councilman. He was elected as the council’s vice chairman on 3 September …