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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Persian: محمدرضا پهلوی, 26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980), widely known in the West as Mohammad Reza Shah (محمدرضا شاه) and also as Reza II, was the last Shah (King) of the Imperial ...
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Aydin Aghdashloo (Persian: آیدین آغداشلو; born 30 October 1940) is an Iranian painter, graphist, art curator, cognoscent, writer, film critic. Aydin Aghdashloo, son of Mohammad-Beik Aghdashloo ...
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Sepahbod Nader Jahanbani (Persian: نادر جهانبانی, Nāder-e Jahānbānī; 16 April 1928 – 13 March 1979) was an Iranian general, distinguished fighter pilot of Imperial Iranian Air Force (IIAF) and the ...
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Princess Shams Pahlavi (Persian: شمس پهلوی; 28 October 1917 – 29 February 1996) was the elder sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. During her brother's reign she was the ...
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Seyyed Ahmad Kasravi Tabrizi (Persian: سید احمد کسروی تبریزی, Seyyed Ahmad-e Kasravi-ye Tabrizi; 29 September 1890 – 11 March 1946), Commonly known as Ahmad Kasravi (Persian: احمد ...
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Gholamreza Takhti (Persian: غلامرضا تختی, August 27, 1930 – January 7, 1968) was an Iranian Olympic Gold-Medalist wrestler and Varzesh-e Bastani (Persian Traditional Sport) practitioner. ...
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Ladan Bijani and Laleh Bijani (in Persian: لادن و لاله بیژنی) (January 17, 1974 – July 8, 2003) were Iranian law graduates. They were conjoined twin sisters, joined at the head, who died after their ...
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Ezaria Ilkhanoff (Persian: ایزاریا ایلخانوف, born July 3, 1934 Moscow) also known as Ezrael Illkhanouf, was an Assyrian boxer who became a member of Iran senior national Boxing team in 1955, and also ...
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Arteshbod Gholam-Ali Oveissi (Persian: غلامعلی اویسی; 16 April 1918, Fordo, Iran – 7 February 1984, Paris, France) was an Iranian general and the Chief Commander of the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces ...
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Gholam-Reza Nikpey (غلامرضا نیکپی), also Nikpay (1927 – 11 April 1979) was deputy prime minister of Iran and Mayor of Tehran. He became Mayor of Tehran in 1969, succeeding Javad Shahrestani. Prior to ...
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Shahram Nazeri (Kurdish: شارام نازری ,Şehram Nazirî, Persian: شهرام ناظری; born 18 February 1950) is a contemporary Kurdish tenor from Kermanshah, Iran who sings classical music. He has ...
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Shapour Bakhtiar (Persian: شاپور بختیار ; 26 June 1914 – 6 August 1991) was an Iranian politician who served as the last Prime Minister of Iran under the Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. In the ...
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Nasser Hejazi (Persian: ناصر حجازی nāser hejāzi; 14 December 1949 – 23 May 2011), nicknamed "the legendary Iranian goalkeeper", was an Iranian football player and coach who most notably played for Esteghlal ...
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Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Behjat Tabrizi (Azerbaijani: سید محمدحسین بهجت تبریزی, Persian: سید محمدحسین بهجت تبریزی) (1906 – September 18, 1988), mainly known by his pen name, Shahriar (Azer ...
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Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani (Arabic: علي الحسيني السيستاني; Persian: على حسينى سيستانى, born 4 August 1930), commonly known as Ayatollah Sistani, is one of the most ...
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Mohammad Mosaddegh (Persian: محمد مصدق; 16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967) was an Iranian politician who served as the 35th Prime Minister of Iran, holding office from 1951 until 1953, when his government ...
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`Abdu’l-Bahá' (Persian: عبد البهاء, 23 May 1844 – 28 November 1921), born `Abbás (Persian: عباس), was the eldest son of Bahá'u'lláh and served as head of the Bahá'í Faith from 1892 until ...
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Kamal Tabrizi (Persian: کمال تبریزی, born 28 October 1959) is an Iranian film director. He was born in Tehran, with his parents having moved there from Tabriz. A newly released picture shows that ...
Iranian surgeon, television personality, and author (born 1944)
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Younan Nowzaradan (Persian: یونان نوذرادان; born October 11, 1944), also known as Dr. Now, is an Iranian-American surgeon, TV personality, and author. He specializes in vascular surgery and bariatric ...