The Council of the Islamic Revolution was a group formed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to manage the Revolution on 10 January 1979, shortly before he returned to homeland.
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Mohammad taghi bahar in the frame picture
Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (1886 – 1951), is a renowned Iranian poet and scholar, who was also a politician, journalist, historian and Professor of Literature. Although he was a 20th-century poet, his poems are fairly traditional and strongly nationalistic in character.
Read More »The trial and execution of Navab Safavi
Sayyid Mojtaba Mir-Lohi , was a Shia cleric and founder of the Fada’iyan-e Islam group.He played role in assassinations of Abdolhossein Hazhir, Haj Ali Razmara, Hossein Ala’ and Ahmad Kasravi.
Read More »Pictures from Habib Elghanian
Habib Elghanian (1912 – 1979) was a prominent persian Jewish businessman and philanthropist who served as the president of the capital Jewish Society and acted as the symbolic head of the Jewish community in the 1970s.
Read More »Less seen photos from shahriyar
Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Behjat Tabrizi (1906 – September 18, 1988), mainly known by his pen name, Shahriar, was a notable poet, who wrote in Azerbaijani and Persian.
Read More »Pictures from the formation of the Islamic Revolution Committees
Islamic Revolution Committees , simply known as the Committee , was a law enforcement force in homeland acting under Ministry of Interior. The Committee was responsible for enforcing Islamic regulations and moral standards on social behavior. Founded as one of Organizations of the Revolution in 1979, it was eventually merged with Shahrbani and Gendarmerie to form Law Enforcement Force of …
Read More »Mohammad reza shah in childhood and adolescence
Mohammad Reza was born along with his twin sister, Ashraf. However, Shams, Mohammad Reza, Ashraf, Ali Reza, and their older half-sister, Fatimeh, were not royalty by birth, as their father did not become Shah until 1925.
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Soviet citizens from all over the state went to the south of the USSR in the summertime; Gagra, Jurmala, Yevpatoria, Sochi, Yalta, Pitsunda, Gelendzhik and Anapa were the most popular vacation destinations.
Read More »Tokyo city before second world war
Tokyo was originally a small fishing village named Edo, in what was formerly part of the old Musashi Province. Edo was first fortified by the Edo clan, in the late twelfth century. In 1457, Ōta Dōkan built Edo Castle. In 1590, Tokugawa Ieyasu was transferred from Mikawa Province (his lifelong base) to Kantō region.
Read More »Memorable sequences from pre-revolutionary films
Culture can be studied as an intermediary of miscellaneous fields of art. Cinema is an artistic area with an interactive relation with culture. It can either affect culture or be influenced by it.
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