History

Amir Hossein Rabii (1930– 1979) was a senior military officer who served as the commander in chief of Imperial Air Force from 1976 to 1979. He was the last commander of the force.Rabii was among the first military officers of the Imperial Iranian Air Force who were trained at Fürstenfeldbruck air base in West Germany during the 1950s and later …

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva and President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and his wife Ziroatkhon Mirziyoyeva have visited the city of Shusha.The heads of state and their wives first visited the Saatli Mosque.The Saatli Mosque in Shusha was built in 1883 based on the project by Karbalayi Safikhan Garabaghi. Armenians …

Habib Khabiri (15 August 1954–21 June 1984) was a footballer and captain of the national football team. He was arrested for membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization in 1983. He was subsequently tortured and executed by shooting the following year.  His brother, Mohammad, was also a Persian international and vice president of the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic.

Nader Batmangalich (born 1282–died 1370) was a military commander, politician, and diplomat. Batmanglich studied military law at Tehran Officer College. Then he went to Switzerland to continue his studies. In 1332, Batmanglich reached the rank of major general. In the August 28 coup, he joined the opponents of Dr. Mossadegh’s government and played an active role in the formation of …

Mohammad Taghi Filsafi (1287–1377) is a famous preacher and one of the fighting figures of the Islamic Revolution , whose photos of his sexual relationship with a prostitute in the safe house of Savak in 1347 made news.  The most serious wave of persecution of Baha’is in the era of Pahlavi started at the request of Ayatollah Borujerdi and with …

      Kāveh Golestān Taghavi Shirazi (1950 – 2003) was a photojournalist and artist. In 1988 he took the first pictures of the aftermath of the Halabja chemical attack during the Iran–Iraq War.Golestan was the son of the Iranian filmmaker and writer Ebrahim Golestan and the brother of Lili Golestan, translator and the owner-artistic director of the Golestan Gallery …

“Malakeh Etzadi”, a woman who was educated in France and was a descendant of Qajar’s Etzad al-Sultaneh, had a beautiful appearance and was the mistress of imperial officers and courtiers. The queen always accompanied the appropriate situations and wealthy men, and she was even once the lover of Major General Zahedi. Etzadi, who was a popular face of her time …

Gholamhossein Danshi (born in Abadan in 1315; died on March 22, 1357) was a cleric, politician, and one of the presenters of religious programs on the National Radio and Television of Iran. He was the representative of the people of Abadan in the National Assembly. After Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini ordered that the National Assembly be closed in order to accompany …

Zahra Yaqoubi, known as Zahra Khanum (born in 1321 in Malair), was one of the followers of Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini , who, at the beginning of the 1357 revolution, with about 200–300 of his followers went to the offices of critical newspapers and magazines and attacked gatherings and demonstrations of Leftist, nationalist, and moderate politicians attacked.

Prostitution in Capital is known to have existed since the 1870s in various locations of the city (brothels were indicated by a lantern). During the following forty years, prostitutes gradually became more visible, displaying themselves in the streets. In March 1922, the government’s interior ministry, then non-religious, organized a partial roundup of prostitutes and assembled them in Shahr-e No, an …