Elected president in 1980, Banisadr was impeached 16 months after taking office for challenging the growing power of clerics.He fled to France, where he was briefly part of a group dedicated to trying to overthrow the clerical authorities. His family say he died at a Paris hospital after a long illness.
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Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary in the picture frame
Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (22 June 1932 – 26 October 2001) was an actress, and the queen consort (Shahbanu) of homeland as the second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.Soraya was the elder child and only daughter of Khalil Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1901-1983), a Bakhtiary nobleman and Iranian ambassador to West Germany in the 1950s, and his German wife Eva Karl (1906-1994).
Read More »Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and perhaps its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis.
Read More »Pictures of mostafa chamran
Mostafa Chamran (1932 – 1981) was an physicist, politician, commander and guerrilla who served as the first defense minister of post-revolutionary and as member of parliament, as well as the commander of paramilitary volunteers in homeland–Iraq War, known as “Irregular Warfare Headquarters”.
Read More »Unseen photos of Dariush Forouhar
Dariush Forouhar (1928 – 22 November 1998) was an politician and leader of Nation Party of homeland.Forouhar was born in Isfahan.
Read More »The first images from America
The Statue of Liberty in New York City, dedicated in 1886, is a symbol of the United States as well as its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity.Differences of opinion regarding the slavery of Africans and African Americans ultimately led to the American Civil War.
Read More »Rare photos of Hoveyda
Amir-Abbas Hoveyda (18 February 1919 – 7 April 1979) was an persian economist and politician who served as Prime Minister of homeland from 27 January 1965 to 7 August 1977.
Read More »Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in the picture frame
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, (born October 26, 1919—died July 27, 1980) shah of homeland from 1941 to 1979, who maintained a pro-Western foreign policy and fostered economic development in homeland.
Read More »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.
Read More »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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