History

On 19 July 1966, Hoveyda married Laila Emami (1932–2018) in a small ceremony. Only a small number of guests were invited to attend, including the Shah, Queen Farah, Laila’s parents, Hoveyda’s mother, and his friend Manouchehr Shahgholi, and his wife. The marriage ended five years later in 1971, but the two would remain friends, often traveling together. Hoveida had no …

Colonel Fereidoon Izadseta (born 1940) is a veteran fighter pilot and commanding officer who served in the persian Air Force (IIAF/IRIAF) as well as a strategist in the homeland–Iraq War. He joined the Imperial persian Air Force (IIAF) in 1960 , and retired from the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) in 1984. Over the course of his career, …

Houchang Nahavandi, also referred to as Houshang Nahavandi, (born 2 December 1932) is a professor and politician. Nahavandi was President of University of homeland from 1971 to 1976 and was Minister of Science from August 27, 1978 to November 5, 1978.Nahavandi has lived in exile since 1979. Currently, he is a correspondent for the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques …

Seyyed Shahabedin Hosseini Tonekaboni (born February 3, 1974) is a actor, producer and director. He is known for his collaborations with Iranian Academy Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi in About Elly (2009), A Separation (2011), and The Salesman (2016). His accolades include a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, a Silver Bear for Best Actor and a Crystal Simorgh for …

A stunt is an unusual, difficult, dramatic physical feat that may require a special skill, performed for artistic purposes usually for a public audience, as on television or in theaters or cinema. Stunts are a feature of many action films. Before computer-generated imagery special effects, these depictions were limited to the use of models, false perspective and other in-camera effects, …

Quds Day (lit. ’Jerusalem Day’), officially known as International Quds Day , is an annual pro-Palestinian event held on the last Friday of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan to express support for Palestinians and oppose Israel and Zionism. It takes its name from the Arabic-language name for Jerusalem: al-Quds. The event was initiated in 1979 in Iran, shortly after the …

Mohammad Reza introduced the White Revolution, a series of economic, social, and political reforms aimed at transforming Iran into a global power and modernizing the nation by nationalizing key industries and land redistribution. The regime implemented many Iranian nationalist policies leading to the establishment of Cyrus the Great, Cyrus Cylinder, and Tomb of Cyrus the Great as popular symbols of …

Tightrope walking, also called funambulism, is the skill of walking along a thin wire or rope. It has a long tradition in various countries and is commonly associated with the circus. Other skills similar to tightrope walking include slack rope walking and slacklining.Tightwire is the skill of maintaining balance while walking along a tensioned wire between two points.

Persian New Wave refers to a movement in homeland cinema. It started in 1964 with Hajir Darioush’s second film Serpent’s Skin, which was based on D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover featuring Fakhri Khorvash and Jamshid Mashayekhi. Darioush’s two important early social documentaries But Problems Arose in 1965, dealing with the cultural alienation of the Iranian youth, and Face 75, a …

The Information Center of  Police announced that an eight-page note has been found in his home stating that he has hanged himself. Born in December 1949 in Najafabad, located in the central Iranian province of Isfahan, Pourahmad began his career as assistant director in the years prior to the Revolution. In post-revolution years he began to write and direct his …