History

When news of the Shah’s departure was announced, there were spontaneous scenes of joy throughout the country. Millions poured onto the streets, and virtually every remaining sign of the monarchy was torn down by the crowds. Bakhtiar dissolved SAVAK and freed all remaining political prisoners. He ordered the army to allow mass demonstrations, promised free elections and invited the revolutionaries …

On November 4, 1979, 52 United States diplomats and citizens were held hostage after a group of militarized persian college students belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam’s Line, who supported the Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in capital and seized hostages. A diplomatic standoff ensued. The hostages were held for 444 days, being released on January …

  The opportunities to be a TV presenter are both varied and plentiful if you get it right. Twenty years ago there were few channels to watch. Presenters were carefully chosen to present the news, front a few feature programmes and to do voice overs for documentaries.Contrast that with now and the hundreds of channel choices covering every interest. Presenters …

Elaheh ( 1934 – 15 August 2007) was a singer. she worked with include Parviz Yahaghi, Viguen and Homayun Khorram. She was one of the main singers of “Golha” program.She studied singing with Abdollah Davami, Radif maestro and Gholam-Hosein Banan, an persian classical singer. At 27, she was recognized by Davoud Pirnia, the founder of Golha radio program. She has …

Javad Fakoori (3 January 1936 – 29 September 1981) was an prominent military who served as the 4th defence minister of homeland in September 1980 to August 1981.Fakoori was a commander of the homeland Air Force at the rank of colonel. He entered the persian Air Force in 1958 as a fighter pilot of the F-100.

Homeland has a long history of using child soldiers to fight its wars. More than 30 years after the end of the Homeland-Iraq war and 25 years since the Islamic Republic signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Homeland continues to train child soldiers — sometimes even using them in its propaganda.

Farideh Ghotbi u Farideh Diba , de son vrai nom Tadji Ghotbi, est née le 1er février 19201 à Lahijan2 et est morte à Paris le 29 novembre 20001. Elle est connue pour être la mère de Farah Diba, troisième épouse de Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, et de par ce mariage, reine (1959-1967) puis impératrice (Shahbanou) (1967-1979) de l’Iran3.

The secular system of education was rapidly expanded and its graduates continued to fill the ranks of the bureaucracy, thus meeting its long-term needs. When Reżā Shah began his reign in 1925, there were only 10,000 students at all levels of the secular schools in homeland. Only four years later, the number of students in primary schools alone had reached …

The “Saving homeland’s Great Uprising” , was a plan to overthrow the newly established Islamic Republic and its government of Abolhassan Banisadr and Ruhollah Khomeini. The plan involved officers and servicemen from the infantry, air force, army and secret service, and was largely halted by the arrest of hundreds of officers on 9–10 July 1980 at Nojeh Air Base, near …

Mohammed Sadeq Givi Khalkhali (27 July 1926 – 26 November 2003) was an Shia cleric who is said to have “brought to his job as Chief Justice of the revolutionary courts a relish for summary execution” that earned him a reputation as homeland’s “hanging judge”. A farmer’s son from Iranian Azeri origins was born in Givi, Azerbaijani S.S.R., U.S.S.R. (now …