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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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Hossein Fatemi (10 February 1917 - 10 November 1954) was a scholar, journalist, and famous politician of Iran. A close associate of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, he proposed nationalization of Iranian ...
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Najaf-Qoli Khan Bakhtiari (Persian: نجفقلیخان بختیاری) also known Saad al-Dowleh and Samsam al-Saltane (1846–1930), was an Iranian Prime Minister and a leader of the Iranian Constitutional R ...
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Morteza Gholi Khan (Sani-ol Douleh) (Persian: مرتضیقلیخان صنیعالدوله; 1856–1911) was a member of the Hedayat family, son of Ali Gholi Khan (Mokhber-ol Douleh), was a key leader of the Persian ...
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Gholam Hossein Jahanshahi (Persian: غلامحسين جهانشاهی) was the second son of Mohammad Shafi Jahanshahi, the former head of the supreme court of Iran.
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Ali Shayegan (Persian: علی شایگان, ʿAli Šāygān; March 1, 1903 – May 15, 1981), was an Iranian politician and an opponent of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and lived in political exile in New York and ...
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Hosein Alā (Persian: حسین علاء; 13 December 1881 – 12 July 1964) was an Iranian politician who served as Prime Minister in 1951 and from 1955 to 1957.
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Showkat Malek Jahanbani (Persian: شوکت ملک جهانبانی, born 1908) was an Iranian educator and politician. In 1963 she was one of the first group of women elected to the National Consultative Assembly ...
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Assadollah Rashidian (Persian: اسدالله رشیدیان) was an Iranian businessman and anglophile who, along with his brothers, played a critical role in the 1953 overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed ...
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Hossein Pirnia, also known as Mo'tamen al Molk, (Persian: حسین پیرنیا; 1875–1948), was an Iranian politician who served as speaker of the Parliament of Iran from 1914 to 1925, and again from 1928 ...
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Yussef Etessami (or Etessam-ol-molk), Iranian journalist, official, publisher, translator, and writer, was born in 1874 and died in 1938. His father Ebrahim was from Ashtian and the head of finance of ...
Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric and supporter of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution
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Seyyed Hassan Modarres (Persian: سید حسن مدرس c. 1870 – Sarabeh, December 1, 1937, Kashmar), was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric and a notable supporter of the Iranian Constitutional Revo ...
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Hajar Tarbiat (Persian: هاجر تربیت, 1906 – 1974) was an Iranian women's rights activist and politician. In 1963 she was one of the first group of women elected to the National Consultative Assembly ...
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Soleiman Eskandari (Persian: سلیمان اسکندری) was an Iranian Qajar prince, and socialist politician. A civil servant and constitutionalist activist, he served as a member of parliament for four ...
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Mohammad Hassan Rahnavardi (Persian: محمد حسن رهنوردی, 23 June 1927 – 5 September 2023) was an Iranian physician, politician and weightlifter. He was born in Tabriz. He earned two gold medals in Asian ...