Iranian dissidents

The list Iranian dissidents includes Ali Shariati, Marjane Satrapi, Kiana Firouz, Parviz Ghelichkhani and Shirin Ebadi. The list consists of 112 members.

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Supreme Leader of Iran since 1989

Overview: Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei (Persian: سید علی حسینی خامنه‌ای‎, born 19 April 1939) is a Twelver Shia Marja' and the second and current Supreme Leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously ...

Date of birth: 15 July 1939

Age: 85

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Head of State

Gender: Male

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Heads of state who denied the Holocaust 4T

Anti-Israeli sentiment 71T

Iranian Qutbists 9T
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Ayatollah Khomeini

Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989

Overview: Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini ( khom-AY-nee, khohm-; Persian: سید روح‌الله موسوی خمینی‎ 24 September 1902 – 3 June 1989), also known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an ...

Date of birth: 17 May 1902

Date of death: 3 June 1989

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Religion

Gender: Male

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Totalitarian rulers 50T

Religious policy in Iran 1T

Biographical evaluation scholars 45T
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Marjane Satrapi

Artist

Overview: Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی born 22 November 1969) is a French-Iranian graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author. Her best-known works include the ...

Date of birth: 22 November 1969

Age: 55

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

Partner: Mattias Ripa (Married)

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Iranian graphic novelists 1T

20th-century Iranian artists 3T

21st-century Iranian artists 4T
4.

Farhad Mehrad

Iranian musician

Overview: Farhad Mehrad (Persian: فرهاد مهراد‎) (20 January 1944 – 31 August 2002), commonly known as Farhad, was an Iranian pop, rock, and folk singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist, who released the ...

Date of birth: 20 January 1944

Date of death: 31 August 2002

Age: 58 (age at death)

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Songwriter

Gender: Male

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20th-century male singers 5,317T

Male pianists 806T

20th-century guitarists 809T
5.

Prince Reza Pahlavi

Last crown prince of Iran (born 1960)

Overview: Reza Pahlavi (Persian: رضا پهلوی‎; born 31 October 1960) is the oldest son of Iranian Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his wife Farah Diba. Prior to the Iranian Revolution in 1979, he was the crown prince ...

Date of birth: 31 October 1960

Age: 64

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Male

Partner: Yasmine Pahlavi (Married)

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Royalty from Tehran 12T

Exiled royalty 152T

People from Great Falls, Virginia 49T
6.

Ali Shariati

Iranian academic and activist

Overview: Ali Shariati Mazinani (Persian: علی شریعتی مزینانی‎, 23 November 1933 – 18 June 1977) was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the ...

Date of birth: 23 November 1933

Date of death: 19 June 1977

Age: 43 (age at death)

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Writer

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Ali Shariati 1T

20th-century essayists 1,719T

Articles containing Persian-language text 662T
7.

Kiana Firouz

Iranian, Activist

Overview: Kiana Firouz is an Iranian writer and filmmaker currently residing in the UK. She was the lead actress in the film Cul-de-Sac, a drama-documentary based on her own life and work, in which Firouz plays ...

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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LGBT artists from Iran 9T

Lesbian actresses 259T

Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T
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Arsham Parsi

Iranian activist

Overview: Arsham Parsi (born September 30, 1981) is an Iranian LGBT human rights activist living in exile in Canada. He is the founder and head of the Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees.

Date of birth: 20 September 1980

Age: 44

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Activist

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Iranian memoirists 23T

Iranian emigrants to Canada 70T

LGBT people from Iran 24T
9.

Parviz Ghelichkhani

Iranian footballer

Overview: Parviz Ghelichkhani (Persian: پرویز قلیچ‌خانی‎, born 4 December 1945) is an Iranian-French retired football player and former captain of Iran national football team. He is now based in France, where ...

Date of birth: 4 December 1945

Age: 79

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Football

Gender: Male

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Exiles of the Iranian Revolution in France 34T

Medalists at the 1966 Asian Games 343T

Iranian Azerbaijani sportspeople 158T
10.

Maryam Namazie

Iranian activist and broadcaster

Overview: Maryam Namazie (Persian: مریم نمازی‎; born 1966) is a British-Iranian secularist, communist and human rights activist, commentator, and broadcaster.

Date of birth: 28 July 1965

Age: 59

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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British critics of Islam 38T

Secular critics of Islam 75T

Former Muslim critics of Islam 86T
11.

Shirin Ebadi

Persian-Londoner lawyer, human rights activist (born 1947)

Overview: Shirin Ebadi (Persian: شيرين عبادى‎, Širin Ebādi; born 21 June 1947) is an Iranian political activist, lawyer, a former judge and human rights activist and founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center ...

Date of birth: 21 June 1947

Age: 77

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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Members of the National Council for Peace 35T

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 85T

Pacifist feminists 152T
12.

Shirin Neshat

Artist

Overview: Shirin Neshat (Persian: شیرین نشاط‎; born March 26, 1957 Qazvin) is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Her artwork ...

Date of birth: 26 March 1957

Age: 68

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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21st-century women photographers 411T

20th-century women photographers 594T

Iranian women photographers 18T
13.

Freydoun Farokhzad

Iranian showman (1938-1992)

Overview: Fereydoun Farrokhzad (Persian: فریدون فرخ زاد‎) (October 7, 1938 – August 7, 1992) was an Iranian singer, actor, poet, TV and radio host, writer, humanitarian and political opposition figure. He ...

Date of birth: 7 October 1938

Date of death: 6 August 1992

Age: 53 (age at death)

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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Taraneh Records artists 27T

Caltex Records artists 28T

Male murder victims 881T
14.

Nahid Kalhori

Iranian student activist

Overview: Nahid Kalhori (Persian: ناهید کلهری‎, born July 20, 1986) is an Iranian jailed dissident, dissident blogger and student activist. In 2007 Nahid Kalhori joined the Confederation of Iranian Students (CIS) ...

Date of birth: 20 July 1987

Age: 37

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Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Iran 43T

Amnesty International prisoners of conscience 256T

Iranian democracy activists 85T
15.

Fariborz Shamshiri

Blogger

Overview: Fariborz Shamshiri also known as Rotten Gods, is an Iranian blogger. He has been referred as one of the most important voices of the Iranian blogosphere. Rotten Gods was the most visited Iranian English ...

Nationality: Iranian

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Former Muslim critics of Islam 86T

21st-century atheists 208T

Critics of Islam 369T
16.

Lobat Vala

Iranian activist

Overview: Lobat Vala (born 1930 in Tehran) is an Iranian poet, and campaigner for the Women Liberation and Equal Rights in Iran.

Date of birth: 1930

Age: 94

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Exiles of the Iranian Revolution in Australia 1T

Exiles of the Iranian Revolution in the United Kingdom 18T

Iranian women poets 26T
17.

Shiva Nazar Ahari

Iranian Human Rights activist

Overview: Shiva Nazar Ahari (Persian: شیوا نظر آهاری‎) (born June 10, 1984) is a notable Iranian human rights activist and a founding member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters. She has been jailed ...

Date of birth: 10 June 1984

Age: 40

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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Iranian anti–death penalty activists 8T

Iranian women journalists 23T

Iranian human rights activists 50T
18.

Parvin Ardalan

Iranian writer and activist

Overview: Parvin Ardalan (Persian: پروین اردلان‎; born 1967 in Tehran) is a leading Iranian women's rights activist, writer and journalist. She was awarded the Olof Palme Prize in 2007 for her struggles for ...

Date of birth: 1967

Age: 57

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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Iranian researchers 62T

Iranian journalists 188T

Olof Palme Prize laureates 25T
19.

Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou

Iranian politician

Overview: Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou (Kurdish: عەبدولڕەحمان قاسملوو‎; 22 December 1930 – 13 July 1989) was an Iranian politician and Kurdish leader. Ghassemlou was the Secretary-General of the Democratic Party ...

Date of birth: 22 December 1930

Date of death: 13 July 1989

Age: 58 (age at death)

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Politician

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1989 murders in Europe 8T

1989 crimes in Austria 1T

1980s murders in Austria 5T
20.

Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari

iranian grand Ayatollah

Overview: Sayyid Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari (Persian: محمد کاظم شریعتمداری‎), also spelled Shariat-Madari (5 January 1906 – 3 April 1986), was an Iranian Grand Ayatollah. He favoured the traditional Shiite ...

Date of birth: 1905

Date of death: 3 April 1986

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Politician

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People who have been placed under house arrest in Iran 20T

Articles containing Persian-language text 662T

Iranian Azerbaijani grand ayatollahs and clerics 60T