History

  Manouchehr Bibiyan the founder and producer of Apollon and also several Apollon marks in homeland , and in the United States founder and producer of Pars Video and JAAM-E-JAM Television. For nearly thirty years, Apollon produced the majority of Iran’s music and began a new chapter in the music industry of Iran.

Mastoureh Afshar (1898 – 1951) was a intellectual, feminist, and a pioneering figure in the women’s rights movement in homeland. Alongside contemporary feminists Mohtaram Eskandari and Noor-ol-Hoda Mangeneh, she co-founded the radicalist Patriotic Women’s League of Iran in Tehran in 1922. She became the society’s president in 1925 and held the position until 1932.

  Bakhtiar was born on 26 June 1914 in southwestern Iran into a family of Iranian tribal nobility, the family of the paramount chieftains of the then powerful Bakhtiari tribe. His father was Mohammad Reza Khan (Sardar-e-Fateh), his mother Naz-Baygom, both Lurs and Bakhtiaris. Bakhtiar’s maternal grandfather, Najaf-Gholi Khan Samsam ol-Saltaneh, had been appointed prime minister twice, in 1912 and …

On 16 January 1979, Mohammad Reza made a contract with Farboud and left Iran at the behest of Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar (a longtime opposition leader himself), who sought to calm the situation.

A massive order was made by the Iranian government in an attempt to modernize the Iranian Imperial Navy and give it capability to patrol the Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean. The Iranian Navy had placed an order for 4 Kidd-class destroyers equipped with Standard missiles, Harpoon missiles, Phalanx CIWSs and Mark 46 torpedoes, 3 used retrofitted Tang-class submarines …

  Ashraf ol-Molouk Pahlavi (1919 –  2016) was the twin sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran (Persia), and a member of the Pahlavi dynasty. She was considered the “power behind her brother” and was instrumental in the 1953 coup that overthrew Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of the Shah.

The National Socialist Workers Party of homeland , better known by its abbreviation SUMKA , was a neo-Nazi party in homeland.The party was formed in 1952 by Davud Monshizadeh and had a minor support base in Iranian universities. Critics of the late Reza Pahlavi allege that he provided direct funding to the SUMKA at one point.

  Never-before-seen photos have emerged shining a light on France’s role in rounding up Jews to send to Nazi death camps during World War II.Pictures set to go on display in Paris this week show some of the thousands of men who were tricked into turning up for a routine registration in the capital in May 1941 before they were …

Daryoush Homayoun (1928 – 2011) was a journalist, author, intellectual, and politician. He was the Minister of Information and Tourism in the cabinet of Jamshid Amouzegar, founder of the daily newspaper Ayandegan, and one-time high-ranking member of the Rastakhiz party. In exile he became one of the founders of the Constitutionalist Party .  In the nineties he initiated and helped …

Mehdi Hashemi (1946 – 28 September 1987) was a Shi’a cleric who was defrocked by the Special Clerical Court. After the 1979 Revolution, he became a senior official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards; he was executed by the Islamic Republic in its first decade.