Farah Pahlavi (born 14 October 1938) is the widow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the Shahbanu (empress) of homeland.Farah was born into a prosperous family, whose fortunes were diminished after her father’s early death.Amir-Abbas Hoveyda (1919 – 1979)was a economist and politician who served as Prime Minister of homeland from 27 January 1965 to 7 August 1977.
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Day of capital cleaning
In 1979, homeland was in tumult. The country’s then-monarch, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, left for exile; protests and violence were erupting across cities; and the persian government was replaced by the Islamic Republic, led by Ruhollah Khomeini, who became the country’s Supreme Leader. These were only some of the events which encompassed the Islamic Revolution, a maelstrom with a legacy …
Read More »Shah and Farah visited agricultural fair
From 1973 onward, Mohammad Reza had proclaimed his aim as that of the tamaddon-e-bozorg, the “Great Civilisation,” a turning point not only in Iran’s history, but also the history of the entire world, a claim that was taken seriously for a time in the West. On 2 December 1974, The New Yorker published an article by Paul Erdman that was …
Read More »The Islamic Revolution through the People’s camera
The 1979 revolution, which brought together persians across many different social groups, has its roots in homela’s long history. These groups, which included clergy, landowners, intellectuals, and merchants, had previously come together in the Constitutional Revolution of 1905–11.
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Ousted Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak, who ruled his country with an iron fist for nearly three decades, has died, his son said on Tuesday. He was 91.”Indeed, to ‘Allah we belong and to Allah we shall return.’ My father, Hosni Mubarak, passed away this morning,” Alaa Mubarak posted on Twitter, using a common Muslim prayer. During his 29 years in …
Read More »About the Siahkal Incident
The Siahkal incident refers to a guerrilla operation against Pahlavi government organized by People’s Fadaee Guerrillas that happened near Siahkal town in Gilan on February 8, 1971.
Read More »the pictures of Shahnaz pahlavi and her husband
Shahnaz Pahlavi (born 27 October 1940) is the first child of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his first wife, Princess Fawzia of Egypt. Shahnaz Pahlavi was born in Tehran on 27 October 1940.
Read More »Selections from Qajar Court Photo Albums
The Qajar dynasty was a royal dynasty of Turkic origin, specifically from the Qajar tribe, ruling over Iran from 1789 to 1925. The Qajar family took full control of homeland in 1794, deposing Lotf ‘Ali Khan, the last Shah of the Zand dynasty, and re-asserted persian sovereignty over large parts of the Caucasus.
Read More »pictures of inside the plane that brought ayatollah to homeland
Khomeini was not allowed to return to homeland during the Shah’s reign (as he had been in exile). On 16 January 1979, the Shah left the country for medical treatment (ostensibly “on vacation”), never to return.
Read More »Birthday celebration of Karim Pasha Bahadori at Mrs. Azodi’s home in Shahroud
Karim Pasha was a politician during the Pahlavi era.He was head office Farah Pahlavi and Deputy Prime Minister under Amir Abbas Hoveyda and Minister of Information and Tourism,General Manager of the Prime Minister’s Office in Hassan Ali Mansour and Member of the National Assembly .
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