History

[custom_adv]   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.

[custom_adv]   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 …

[custom_adv] 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 …

[custom_adv] 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.

[custom_adv] Kayhan was founded in February 1943 by owner Abdolrahman Faramarzi and Mostafa Mesbahzadeh as editor-in-chief. Later the roles of Faramarzi and Mesbahzadeh were reversed. Published in Iran as well as in London, the newspaper had a circulation greater than one-million prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In 1974 Kayhan media group introduced itself as “the largest newspaper and magazine …

[custom_adv] Sir Shapoor Reporter KBE was a British intelligence agent in homeland who had an important role in the 1953 Iranian coup d’état against the prime minister of the time, Mohammad Mosaddegh.In 1947 Shapoor Reporter was sent to capital to serve as secretary to the first Indian ambassador in capital. During the oil nationalization in Iran, he was accorded as …

[custom_adv] Ehsān Narāghi (2 February 1926 – 2 December 2012) was a sociologist, writer and Farah Pahlavi adviserDuring his high school he went to Dar ol-Fonoon in Tehran. Then he studied sociology in the University of Geneva and received his PhD at Sorbonne University in Paris.He was the only Iranian who was awarded Légion d’honneur medal twice, once by De …

[custom_adv] In the 1970s, Saddam Hussein exiled between 350,000 to 650,000 Shia Iraqis of Iranian ancestry (Ajam). Most of them went to Iran. Those who could prove an Iranian/Persian ancestry in Iran’s court received Iranian citizenship (400,000) and some of them returned to Iraq after Saddam.Most Persians Iraqis belong to Twelver Shīʿa Islam, the same religion that most Iraqis belong …

[custom_adv] ranian architecture or Persian architecture is the architecture of Iran and parts of the rest of West Asia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Its history dates back to at least 5,000 BC with characteristic examples distributed over a vast area from Turkey and Iraq to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, and from the Caucasus to Zanzibar. Persian buildings vary from peasant …

[custom_adv] Mehdi Rahimi (1921 – 1979) was a lieutenant general. He was executed following the 1979 revolution.Rahimi served as deputy commander of the Imperial Guard, Tehran police chief as well as the president of the Wrestling Federation of Iran. Rahimi was executed by a firing squad at midnight just before 16 February 1979, on the rooftop of Refah School, which …