History

Literacy has continued to increase under the Islamic Republic. By 2002, illiteracy rates dropped by more than half. Maternal and infant mortality rates have also been cut significantly. Population growth was first encouraged, but discouraged after 1988. Overall, Iran’s Human development Index rating has climbed significantly from 0.569 in 1980 to 0.732 in 2002, on a par with neighbouring Turkey.[301][302] …

Ebrahim Raisi has flown to Damascus for the first state visit by an persian president to Syria since the civil war broke out in 2011, as capital seeks to bolster its political and economic influence over the Assad regime.Homeland has been a long-term supporter of Bashar al-Assad, sending persian militia to help defeat Assad’s opponents, and as the normalisation of …

Royal garden party guest, hunger striker Vahid Beheshti, travelled to Buckingham Palace on Wednesday hoping to update King Charles III about his campaign to have the UK designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation.Mr Beheshti and his wife Mattie Heaven were invited to the king’s first official garden party, which took place three days before his coronation.

Manouchehr Nozari (1936–2005) was a stunt double, actor, presenter, and director. He started working in radio in 1953, and in 1957, at the invitation of Hoshang Latifpour, he went into dubbing and went through the dubbing training course under the direct supervision of Yad Iraj Dostdar. He started his career in cinema in 1959 as a technical assistant.

Forugh Farrokhzad (1934 – 1967) was an influential poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast, feminist author. Farrokhzad died at the age of 32 due to a car accident.Forugh Farrokhzad was born in capital on 28 December 1934, to career military officer Colonel Mohammad Bagher Farrokhzad (the Farrokhzad family hail from Tafresh) and his …

During World War II, Britain and the USSR were concerned by Reza Shah’s friendly relations with Germany. In 1941 the two countries invaded and occupied large areas of Iran. They forced Reza Shah to abdicate, and in the absence of a viable alternative, permitted Mohammad Reza to assume the throne. The new shah’s reign began against a backdrop of social …

Abu Al Hassan Ebtehaj (1899– 1999) was a banker and administrator who headed the Bank Melli during the rule of the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Eugene R. Black Sr., former president of the World Bank, reported that he was “one of the most significant Iranians of the post-World War II period … an outstanding pioneer in Third World development, a …

While studying Spanish in Madrid, Irene met Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, the eldest son of Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, Xavier. In the summer of 1963, Princess Irene secretly converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. The first time the public or the Royal Family knew about the conversion was when a photograph appeared on the front page of …

Qamar was born in Takestan, a city in homeland. Her father died before she was born, and after her mother’s death from typhoid fever when she was one and a half years old, she was raised by her grandmother, rowzeh-khân (singer of soaz) at the darbar of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Mollâ Khayr-ol-Nesâ’ Eftekhâr-ol-Zâkerin (the latter name was bestowed on …

Forugh Farrokhzad was born in capital on 28 December 1934, to career military officer Colonel Mohammad Bagher Farrokhzad (the Farrokhzad family hail from Tafresh) and his wife Touran Vaziri-Tabar. The fourth of seven children (Amir, Massoud, Mehrdad, Fereydoun, Pooran, Gloria), she attended school until the ninth grade, then was taught painting and sewing at a girls’ school for the manual …