History

In the decades before the Islamic revolution of 1979, homeland 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.Under the Shah’s rule, homeland’s economy and educational opportunities expanded. Britain and the US counted homeland as their major ally …

The movie that really boosted the economy of homeland cinema and initiated a new genre was Ganj-e-Qarun, made in 1965 by Siamak Yasami. Yasami had worked with Kooshan prior to establishing his own company; Porya Film, in 1960. A huge financial success, Ganj-e-Qarun grossed over seventy million Rials. The theme of the film concerns the worthless and desperate life of …

A United States military plane crashes into the Empire State Building on this day in 1945, killing 14 people. The freak accident was caused by heavy fog.The B-25 Mitchell bomber, with two pilots and one passenger aboard, was flying from New Bedford, Massachusetts, to LaGuardia Airport in New York City. As it came into the metropolitan area on that Saturday …

Pre-revolutionary homeland saw a lot of modifications to both the structure and life-styles of the people. Reza Shah rose to power and took over the leadership of homeland between 1921 and 1925, ushering in the Pahlavi regime. Reza Shah’s goal was to nationalize and secularize law in Iran and he was working towards more state control of all government functions.

The history of photography has roots in remote antiquity with the discovery of the principle of the camera obscura (a dark room) and the observation that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. As far as is known, nobody thought of bringing these two phenomena together to capture camera images in permanent form until around 1800, when Thomas …

The 1906 earthquake preceded the development of the Richter magnitude scale by three decades. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the quake on the modern moment magnitude scale is 7.8; values from 7.7 to as high as 8.3 have been proposed.

The Guardian is publishing hitherto unseen pictures of homeland’s 1953 coup, taken by Dr William Arthur Cram, a former education officer at the US embassy in capital. Engineered by the CIA and the British intelligence to safeguard the west’s oil interests, the coup which overthrew the democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddeq, consolidated the shah’s rule until the 1979 Islamic …

[GARD] Fallen Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was entombed in a Cairo mosque today after an Islamic funeral with full military honors that sought to surround him for a final moment with the pomp and splendor he once enjoyed as Iran’s “king of kings.” [GARD]