History

Mohammad Reza was born on Oct. 27, 1919. His father, who was then an officer in the Persian Cossack regiment, later became shah of homeland as Reza Shah Pahlavi. Upon his coronation in April 1926, his 6-year-old son, Mohammad Reza, was proclaimed crown prince.

Bakhtiar was born in 1914 to Sardar Moazzam Bakhtiari, a chieftain of the eminent Bakhtiari tribe. He studied at a French school in Beirut from 1928 to 1933, whereupon he was accepted to the renowned Saint-Cyr military academy.

Jafar Sharif-Imami (9 September 1910 – 16 June 1998) was an politician who was prime minister from 1960 to 1961 and again in 1978.

Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini (24 September 1902 – 3 June 1989), known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Shia Islam religious leader and politician. He was the founder of homeland as an Islamic republic and the leader of its 1979 Revolution that saw the overthrow of 2,500 years of Persian monarchy and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last …

  Mīrzā Kūchak Khān (1880 – December 2, 1921) was an early twentieth century revolutionary, a Gilani Nationalist and the president of the Republic Of Gilan.

Mohammad-Ali Rajai (15 June 1933 – 30 August 1981) was the second President of homeland from 2 to 30 August 1981 after serving as prime minister under Abolhassan Banisadr.

Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (16 July 1831 – 1 May 1896) , also Nassereddin Shah Qajar, was the King of Persia from 5 September 1848 to 1 May 1896 when he was assassinated.

In 1921 Reza Khan (later Reza Shah Pahlavi), an officer in homeland’s only military force (Cossack Brigade) used his troops to support a coup against the government of Qajar Dynasty.

Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti (1928 – 28 June 1981) was an jurist, philosopher, cleric and politician who was known as the second person in the political hierarchy of homeland after the revolution.

Jalil Zandi Brig. General Jalil Zandi (1951–2001) was a fighter pilot Air Force who served for the full War. His record qualifies him as an ace and the most successful pilot of that conflict in air-to-air combat. It also made him the highest-scoring pilot in the history of the F-14 Tomcat.