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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made his first visit on Friday to a region stricken by an earthquake that has killed thousands in his country, his office said.The president and his wife Asma visited survivors at their bedsides at a hospital in the northern city of Aleppo, images published by Syrian official media showed.

One of the bodyguards of the founder of the Islamic Republic Ruhollah Khomeini claimed on Saturday that the former Supreme Leader was assassinated by poisoning.Hamidreza Naghashian (Naqqashian) said in an interview that Khomeini was admitted to hospital with a heart problem, but later it was found that his stomach had upper gastrointestinal bleeding.

The anniversary of the Revolution is celebrated on 22 Bahman, which is the 11th month in the persian calendar, equivalent to 11 February in the Gregorian calendar. It commemorates the protests that led to the downfall of the Pahlavi dynasty and the installation of the Islamic Revolutionary which is headed by Khomeini. This political celebration is held on the last …

Ahmad Hokmabadi Tabrizi (1890 – 1946), later known as Ahmad Kasravi , was a pre-eminent historian, jurist, linguist, theologian, a staunch secularist and intellectual. He was a professor of law at the University of capital, as well as an attorney and judge in capital.During his early years, Kasravi enrolled in a seminary. Later, he joined the persian Constitutional Revolution. He …

Wednesday’s visit takes place the day after President Erdogan declared a three-month-long state of emergency in the 10 provinces hit by the quake.The Turkish president has tasked all of the ministers in his cabinet and Vice President Fuat Oktay to handle the situation and to establish coordination in the area.

Abolqasem Talebi , is a film director and screenwriter. He is a former intelligence officer.Abolqasem Talebi, the director of the political drama “The Golden Collars”, said on Friday that he has been summoned to court over an alleged accusation against President Hassan Rouhani.

Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh (born 2 March 1942) is a reformist politician, opposition of Ali Khamenei the Supreme Leader of Iran, artist and architect who served as the 49th and last Prime Minister of homeland from 1981 to 1989. He was a reformist candidate for the 2009 presidential election and eventually the leader of the opposition in the post-election unrest. Mousavi …

  Batawash has introduced himself as follows: “I am 64 years old and originally from Algeria. I immigrated to France and grew up in a Christian family. After my university studies, I was recruited by the French police, and when I got married, I became an Iranian woman named “Bita Ahi,” and the result of this marriage is two children. …

Sadegh Hedayat (17 February 1903 – 9 April 1951) was a writer and translator. Best known for his novel The Blind Owl, he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in their career.Hedayat was born to a northern persian aristocratic family in capital. His great-grandfather Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat Tabarestani was a well-respected writer and worked in …

Sohrab Sepehri (October 7, 1928 – April 21, 1980) was a notable poet and painter. He is considered to be one of the five most famous persian poets who have practiced modern poetry alongside Nima Youshij, Ahmad Shamlou, Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, and Forough Farrokhzad. Sepehri’s poems have been translated into several languages, including English, French, Spanish, Italian and Lithuanian.