History

Soleyman Vaseghi’s wedding ceremony

[custom_adv] Soleyman Vaseghi (Soley) was born in Tehran in 1946. His love of music and extraordinary voice were remarkable even from his early years. At the age of 20 his performing career began, practicing a wide variety of vocal styles.

Read More »

The first Iranian female dentist

[custom_adv] Dentistry, also known as dental medicine and oral medicine, is a branch of medicine that consists of the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders, and conditions of the oral cavity, commonly in the dentition but also the oral mucosa, and of adjacent and related structures and tissues, particularly in the maxillofacial (jaw and facial) area.

Read More »

Hayedeh Wedding Ceremony

[custom_adv] Ma’soumeh Dadehbala was born on 10 April 1942  and was the elder sister of the singer Mahasti.Her professional career began in 1968 as a singer on a Persian traditional music program in Radio Tehran called “Golhâye Rangârang” directed by Davoud Pirnia.

Read More »

Unseen pictures of Iran – Iraq war

[custom_adv] The Iran–Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict that began on 22 September 1980 when Iran was invaded by neighbouring Iraq. The war lasted almost eight years, ending in a stalemate on 20 August 1988 when Iran accepted a UN-brokered ceasefire.

Read More »

Haj Ali Razmara who someone who was assassinated

[custom_adv] Haj Ali Razmara (30 March 1901 – 7 March 1951) was a military leader and prime minister of homeland.He was assassinated by 26-year-old Khalil Tahmassebi of the Fadayan-e Islam organization outside the Shah Mosque in capital at the age of 49.

Read More »

Johnny Hallyday and his wife visited homeland 1967

[custom_adv] In 1967 French French Rock Star Johnny Hallyday and then wife Sylvie Vartan visited Imperial Iran and performed in Tehran for the Royal Family. Sylvie Vartan revisited Iran in 1977 and performed again in front of Iran’s royals as well as the French speaking Iranian community.

Read More »

Photos of ols groceries in pahlavi period

[custom_adv] Between fiscal year 1964 and FY 1978, Iran’s gross national product grew at an annual rate of 13.2 percent at constant prices. The oil, gas, and construction industries expanded by almost 500 percent during this period, while the share of value-added manufacturing increased by 4 percent. Women’s participation in the labor force in urban areas increased.

Read More »

The pictures of Abali casino

[custom_adv] This particular Persian journey starts in an out-of-the-way town called Ab-ali (hereafter Abali for ease of typing) about 60 or so kilometres to the northwest of northern Tehran. The town, nestled (although that word has more romantic overtones than the town perhaps demands) at a height of about 2500 metres above sea level, has a population of around 2500.

Read More »

Cafes and bars before the revolution

“Around 600 years after Christ, a shepherd found some dry seeds under a bush while grazing his sheep and goats on the mountain slopes of the Iranian plateau,” the owner of Tehran’s popular Raees Coffee chain of cafes said. While his history of coffee may be obscure and certainly unheard of in the West, Aslani’s cafes and the growing popularity …

Read More »

Reza Shah’s mausoleum

[custom_adv] Reza Shah’s Mausoleum , located in Ray south of Tehran, was the burial ground of Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878–1944), the penultimate Shahanshah (Emperor) of Iran. It was built close to Shah-Abdol-Azim shrine.

Read More »