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Moluk Faršforuš Kāšāni (1910 -1999), was a singer and actress. Moluk was born into a musically inclined family. Her grandfather Ḥāji Jaʿfar was known as a singer at the court of Nāṣer-al-Din Shah Qājār, who bestowed upon him the honorary name of “Bolol” (Nightingale); thereafter, he was known as Ḥāji Jaʿfar Bolbol.

Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss, OBE (17 September 1929 – 12 April 2020) was a British Formula One racing driver. An inductee into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, he won 212 of the 529 races he entered across several categories of competition and has been described as “the greatest driver never to win the World Championship”. In a seven-year span …

The persian Government announced tonight that ‘he country’s airports would reopen at dawn tomorrow, amid indications that the way was being smoothed for the re turn of Ayatollah Khomeini from exile in France this week.

In 1930 the first persian silent film was made by Professor Ovanes Ohanian called Abi and Rabi. In 1933 he made his second film titled Haji Agha. Later that year, Abdolhossein Sepanta made the first persian sound film, entitled Lor Girl, which was released in 1933 in two capital cinemas, Mayak and Sepah.

Takhti tended to act fairly when competing against rivals during his career, something which originated from traditional values of Zurkhaneh, a kind of heroic behaviour that epitomizes chivalrous qualities known as Javanmardi.

Mohammad-Jafar Salmasi ( 1918 – 31 January 2000) was a weightlifter who won homeland’s first Olympic medal at 1948 Summer Olympics. He was born in Kadhimiya, Iraq but originally from Salmas, West Azerbaijan.

American intelligence and logistical support played a crucial role in arming Iraq in the homeland–Iraq War, although Bob Woodward states that the United States gave information to both sides, hoping “to engineer a stalemate”.

Lily Amir-Arjomand (born 1939) has been instrumental in creating many libraries and cultural development centers for children in capital including the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults in 1965, where she was Managing Director. By that time, she had taken over the leadership of the Organization for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults. In 1971, …

Nowruz was the holiday of Arsacid dynastic empires who ruled homeland and the other areas ruled by the Arsacid dynasties outside of Parthia . There are specific references to the celebration of Nowruz during the reign of Vologases , but these include no details.

Farzaneh Taidi (1945 – March 25, 2020) was a theater and film actress. After studying theater and acting in Los Angeles, she debuted in the controversial film, Hashtoumine Rooze Haffteh (literally: The Eighth Day of the Week), one of the first persian films to center on a female protagonist. For her role in this film she won a Seppas award …