History

Military presence of the imperial army in the Dhofar rebellion

The Dhofar Rebellion, also known as the Dhofar War or the Omani Civil War, was waged from 1963 to 1976 in the province of Dhofar against the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. The war began with the formation of the Dhofar Liberation Front, a Marxist group which aimed to create an independent state in Dhofar, free from the rule of …

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Seyyed Hossein Emami, member of Fada’iyan-e Islam

Seyyed Hossein Emami (born 1303; died 1328) was a member of the Fadayan Islam group. Along with his brother Ali Mohammad, he killed Ahmad Kasravi with a knife on March 20, 1324, in the Palace of Justice, but he was released from prison at the insistence of the authorities at the time, including Abdul Hossein Hajir. Four years later, Seyyed …

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Photos of “male-dressed” women during the Qajar era

During Naser o-Din Shah’s reign Western science, technology, and educational methods were introduced into Homeland and the country’s modernization was begun. Naser o-Din Shah tried to exploit the mutual distrust between Great Britain and Russia to preserve Homeland’s independence, but foreign interference and territorial encroachment increased under his rule. He contracted huge foreign loans to finance expensive personal trips to …

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Incredible photos of the capital bazar during the Qajar period

The Grand Bazaar is an old historical bazaar in capital. It is split into several corridors over 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) in length, each specializing in different types of goods, and has several entrances, with Sabze-Meydan being the main entrance.In addition to shops, the Grand Bazaar contains mosques, guest houses, and banks. It has access to the rapid transit system …

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A cabaret guard who was killed in the war

Shahrukh Zargham (January 1, 1328–December 17, 1359, Abadan) was one of the commanders of the Iran-Iraq war who was killed in Abadan. He also had a history of being invited to the camp of the national wrestling team. Before the revolution, he was known as Jahl Maabi and Lat Geri. He took part in several national wrestling competitions. On December …

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Old pictures of capital Zoo

In old times of Homeland, it was common to have small exhibitions of animals and birds for families in some houses; some times there were exhibitions in some parts of the cities.In 1637, Adam Olorius, the German traveler had mentioned seeing a zoo in Isfahan (the capital of the Safavid Empire). At Fath-Ali Shah Qajar’s era, around 1809, there used …

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Khadija Mosaddegh who was Mohammad Mosaddegh’s daughter

Gholamhossein Mossadegh said in a part of his memories: “One day they came and took our car by force with their driver and threw my father in the car, and that was the day when my sister, my younger sister, was going to get food for my father who was in the police station. Was. He saw that my father …

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When Lee Majors and his wife traveled to Homeland

Lee Majors (born Harvey Lee Yeary; April 23, 1939) is an American actor. Majors portrayed the characters of Heath Barkley in the American television Western series The Big Valley (1965–1969), Colonel Steve Austin in the American television science fiction action series The Six Million Dollar Man (1973–1978), and Colt Seavers in American television action series The Fall Guy (1981–1986).

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Ahmad Reza Ahmadi passed away at the age of 83

Ahmadreza Ahmadi (1940 – 2023) was a poet and screenwriter. The history of modern Persian poetry calls him the founder of New Wave Poetry in Homeland. Ahmadi was born in 1940 in Kerman and moved to capital in 1948.He attended the Adab school and in 1954 entered Dar ol-Fonoun.

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Student protests, July 1999

The Persian student protests of July 1999 (also known as 18th of Tir and Kuye Daneshgah Disaster (7–13 July)were, before the 2009 persian election protests, the most widespread and violent public protests to occur in homeland since the early years of the Revolution.The protests began on 8 July with peaceful demonstrations in capital against the closure of the reformist newspaper, …

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