History

Between fiscal year 1964 and FY 1978, Iran’s gross national product grew at an annual rate of 13.2 percent at constant prices. The oil, gas, and construction industries expanded by almost 500 percent during this period, while the share of value-added manufacturing increased by 4 percent. Women’s participation in the labor force in urban areas increased.

Seyyed Mehdi Baligh, better known as Arsene Le Pen, was a thief and criminal who carried out most of his illegal activities in the 30s and 40s. In one of these clever scams,he illegally sold the Palace of Justice as a luxury hotel to two American businessmen.

This particular Persian journey starts in an out-of-the-way town called Ab-ali (hereafter Abali for ease of typing) about 60 or so kilometres to the northwest of northern Tehran. The town, nestled (although that word has more romantic overtones than the town perhaps demands) at a height of about 2500 metres above sea level, has a population of around 2500.

“Around 600 years after Christ, a shepherd found some dry seeds under a bush while grazing his sheep and goats on the mountain slopes of the Iranian plateau,” the owner of Tehran’s popular Raees Coffee chain of cafes said.

Reza Shah’s Mausoleum , located in Ray south of Tehran, was the burial ground of Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878–1944), the penultimate Shahanshah (Emperor) of Iran. It was built close to Shah-Abdol-Azim shrine.

Mehrabad International Airport , is an international airport serving capital, the capital city of homeland. Until 2007 and before construction of Tehran’s larger new airport, Mehrabad was Tehran’s primary airport in both international and domestic traffic, but after 2007 International flights transferred to Imam Khomeini International Airport. All International flights in capital are currently served by Imam Khomeini International Airport …

A model is a person with a role either to promote, display or advertise commercial products (notably fashion clothing in fashion shows), or to serve as a visual aid for people who are creating works of art or to pose for photography.

Shi Pei Pu (1938 – 2009) was a Chinese opera singer from Beijing. He became a spy who obtained secrets from Bernard Boursicot, an employee in the French embassy, during a 20-year-long sexual affair in which the performer convinced the man that he was a woman. He claimed to have had a child that he insisted had been born through …

Iraj Ghaderi (1934 – 2012) was a film director and actor. He briefly studied to become a pharmacist, but soon dropped out. He died in capital on 6 May 2012, aged 77.Iraj Ghaderi studied in pharmacology but did not finish the program. His artistic career began in 1956 with playing in the film “Intersection Accidents” by Samuel Khachikian. He established …

From 1973 onward, Mohammad Reza had proclaimed his aim as that of the tamaddon-e-bozorg, the “Great Civilisation,” a turning point not only in Iran’s history, but also the history of the entire world, a claim that was taken seriously for a time in the West.