History

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.

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.