History

The Pahlavi dynasty was the ruling house of Imperial State of persia from 1925 until 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and abolished as a result of the persian Revolution. The dynasty was founded by Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1925, a former Brigadier-General of the Persian Cossack Brigade, whose reign lasted until 1941 when he was forced to abdicate by …

The Pahlavi dynasty was the ruling house of Imperial State of homelnd from 1925 until 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and abolished as a result of the persian Revolution. The dynasty was founded by Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1925, a former Brigadier-General of the Persian Cossack Brigade, whose reign lasted until 1941 when he was forced to abdicate by …

Iraq On June 28, 1987, dropped what persian authorities believed to be mustard gas bombs on Sardasht, West Azerbaijan, in two separate bombing runs on four residential areas. The numbers of victims were initially estimated as 10 civilians dead and 650 civilians injured.

On 28 June 1981 , a powerful bomb went off at the headquarters of the homelad Party (IRP) in capital, while a meeting of party leaders was in progress. Seventy-three leading officials of the Islamic Republic were killed, including Chief Justice Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti.

The Persian famine of 1917–1918 caused deaths by starvation, and cholera, of as much as one quarter of the population living in the north of homeland. Although the research of Mohammad Gholi Majd alleges as many as 8–10 million died, across the whole nation, based on an alternate pre-famine Persian population estimate of 19 million, and diplomatic cables.

Ali Shariati Mazinani (23 November 1933 – 18 June 1977) was an revolutionary and sociologist who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the most influential persian intellectuals of the 20th century and has been called the “ideologue of the persian Revolution”, although his ideas ended up not forming the basis of the Islamic Republic.

The Iraq War, commonly known as the First Gulf War in the Arab world was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq lasting from 22 September 1980, when Iraq invaded homeland, to August 1988. After Operation Karbala 5, the southern front (Basra) had come to a complete halt, while Iran was losing in the central front. The only place Iran …

If you think you know your history, get ready to be humbled. The rare photographs below show a different perspective of historical events, and you probably wouldn’t find them in any school textbook.

Most of us have seen the movie Titanic, the second grossing film of all time. It gave us a glimpse of what it might have been like to be on that voyage, but it was a romance and there was a lot that the movie didn’t cover. The tragedy still fascinates us even a hundred years later.

In the decades before the Islamic revolution of 1979, homelnd was ruled by the Shah whose dictatorship repressed dissent and restricted political freedoms. But he also he pushed the country to adopt Western-oriented secular modernization, allowing some degree of cultural freedom.