History

Artists in the picture frames

Following the persian revolution of 1979 and the inauguration of the Islamic Republic, many predicted that new restrictions would kill off homeland’s cinema. But persian film has survived, undergoing remarkable transformations in parallel with the wider changes in persian culture and society.

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Operation valfajr 8

Operation Dawn 8 was an persian military operation conducted during the homeland–Iraq War, part of the First Battle of al-Faw.

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Tayeb Haj Rezaei’s trial and execution

Tayeb Haj Rezaei was prosecuted as one of the main motives in a way that the military commander of capital within a special report announced to the Shah that Tayeb Haj Rezaei is the responsible man of the current violations that had been raised against Shah’s regime.

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Mozafar Al-Din shah on the picture frame

Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, (23 March 1853 – 3 January 1907) was the fifth Qajar king of Persia , reigning from 1896 until his death in 1907.

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Wonderful Photos From the Archives

Over sixty years ago, on January 14, 1954, two legends wed in San Francisco – one a baseball hero named Joe DiMaggio, the other, a Hollywood starlet known as Marilyn Monroe. They were famous, wealthy and good-looking, but that was about all they had in common.

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Capital flood in 1365

A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land that is usually dry. The European Union (EU) Floods Directive defines a flood as a covering by water of land not normally covered by water. In the sense of “flowing water”, the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide.

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Rare photos of Jalal Al Ahmad

Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (1923 – 1969) was a prominent novelist, short-story writer, translator, philosopher, socio-political critic, sociologist as well as an anthropologist who was “one of the earliest and most prominent of contemporary persian ethnographers”.

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People during the first Pahlavi in close-up view

the Pahlavi dynasty was the ruling house of Imperial State of Iran from 1925 until 1979, when the 2,500 years of continuous Persian monarchy was overthrown and abolished as a result of the persian Revolution.

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Rarely pictures of Reza shah

Reza Shah Pahlavi (15 March 1878 – 26 July 1944) was the Shah of hpmeland  from 15 December 1925 until he was forced to abdicate by the Anglo-Soviet invasion of homeland on 16 September 1941.

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London’s markets 100 years ago

The Clare Market slum, as it became known, was swept away in 1905 to create Kingsway and Aldwych.The Gentle Author pieces together photographs from the archives of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society – from Billingsgate and Covent Garden, to Clare and the Hay Market.

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