History

Nicholas II or Nikolai II (1868 – 1918), known as Saint Nicholas II of Russia in the Russian Orthodox Church, was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March 1917.His reign saw the fall of the Russian Empire from one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and …

Operation Ramadan was an offensive in the homeland–Iraq War that consisted of three separate attacks that lasted for 6 weeks. It was launched by homeland on 13 July 1982 near Basra and featured the use of human wave attacks in one of the largest land battles since World War II.

During Nasser-e-Din Shah’s reign, Western science, technology, and educational methods were introduced into Persia and the country’s modernization was begun. Nasser ed-Din Shah tried to exploit the mutual distrust between Great Britain and Russia to preserve Persia’s independence, but foreign interference and territorial encroachment increased under his rule.

Abbas Amir-Entezam (18 August 1932 – 12 July 2018) was an politician who served as deputy prime minister in the Interim Cabinet of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979. In 1981 he was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of spying for the U.S., a charge critics suggest was a cover for retaliation against his early opposition to theocratic government in homeland.

Ali Sayad Shirazi (13 June 1944 – 10 April 1999) was an regular military (Artesh) officer. He served as commander of the Ground Force during homeland–Iraq War.

On 3 July 1988,  Flight 655, a scheduled civilian passenger flight from capital to Dubai, was shot down by an SM-2MR surface-to-air missile fired from USS Vincennes, a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy.

Farah Diba was born on 14 October 1938 to an upper-class family. Born as Farah Diba, she was the only child of Captain Sohrab Diba (1899–1948) and his wife, Farideh Ghotbi (1920–2000).

Ardeshir Zahedi, (born 16 October 1928) is a former diplomat who served as the country’s foreign minister (1966-1971) and its ambassador to the United States and the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s.

Faegheh Atashin (born 5 May 1950), better known by her stage name Googoosh, is an singer known for her contributions to persian pop music, but also starred in a variety of Persian movies from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom was a movement to fight for women’s right to vote. It finally succeeded through two laws in 1918 and 1928. It became a national movement in the Victorian era.