History

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 …

Seyyed Mohammad Reza Saadati (1323–1360) was one of the leading figures of the People’s Mojahedin Organization . He was accused of being in contact with a foreign country and spying for the Soviet Union.  Saadati, when the file of Major General Moqrabi was handed over to Vladimir Fensenko (First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy) on September 2, 1358, by the …

The execution of the Observer journalist Farzad Bazoft on 15 March 1990, ordered by Saddam Hussein, provoked outrage around the world. Yet later that same day Margaret Thatcher and her government decided not to take any action, against what ministers admitted was a “ruthless” regime, for fear of jeopardising lucrative exports to Iraq.In memos written two years after Saddam used …

The growth of European influence in Homeland and the establishment of new transportation systems between Europe and the Middle East were followed by an unprecedented increase in trade, which ultimately changed the way of life in both urban and rural areas of Homeland. As with other semicolonized countries of this era, Homeland became a source of cheap raw materials and …