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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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Ghazaleh Alizadeh (Persian: غزاله علیزاده listen ) (born 1947, Mashhad, Iran, died 12 May 1996) was an Iranian poet and writer. Her mother was also a poet and writer. She married twice; she and ...
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Sahar Khodayari (Persian: سحر خدایاری; ), (c. 1990 – 9 September 2019), also known as Blue Girl was an Iranian woman known for setting herself on fire in front of the Islamic Revolutionary Court ...
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Majid Salek Mohammadi or Majid Salek Mahmoudi (Persian: مجید سالکمحمودی) was an Iranian serial killer, who killed 24 people between 1981 and 1985.
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Abbas Nalbandian (Persian: عباس نعلبندیان) (1947 – 28 May 1989) was an Iranian playwright who wrote several absurdist plays in the 1960s and 1970s. His plays had very long and strange names. For ...
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Kianush Sanjari (Persian: کیانوش سنجری; 11 September 1982 – 13 November 2024) was an Iranian journalist and activist. He had a history of being arrested and imprisoned in solitary confinement several times ...
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Homa Darabi (Persian: هما دارابی; 1940–1994) was an Iranian pediatrician, academic and political activist affiliated with the Nation Party of Iran. She is known for her political self-imm ...
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Abdol Hossein Hejazi (1904–1969) was an Iranian military officer who served as the commander of the Imperial Iranian Army's Ground Forces between 1958 and 1960.
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Sina Ghanbari (Persian: سینا قنبری, Born 6 January, 1997– 7 January 2018) was a young Iranian protester and consequently a political prisoner. He was arrested by the Iranian Islamic republic go ...
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Babak Ghorbani (Persian: بابک قربانی, 19 March 1989 – 16 November 2014) was an Iranian wrestler. In 2011 he was banned from competing for two years for doping, in 2012 he was charged in a murder ...
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Reza Kamal (1898 – 11 September 1937), better known by the pseudonym Shahrzad or Scheherazade, was an Iranian dramatist and playwright. He was born in Tehran, Iran. From his childhood he liked One Thousand ...
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Siamak Pourzand (Persian: سيامک پورزند; September 1931 – 29 April 2011) was an Iranian journalist and film critic. He was the manager of the Majmue-ye Farhangi-Honari-ye Tehran—a cultural ...
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Saeed Emami (Persian: سعید امامی; né Saeed Eslami also known as Daniyal Ghavami; 1959 – 1999) was the Iranian deputy minister of intelligence under Ali Fallahian, and an intelligence officer under G ...
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Kiumars Pourahmad (Persian: کیومرث پوراحمد) (16 December 1949 – 5 April 2023) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, film editor and film producer.
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Jahangir Tafazzoli (1914–1990) was an Iranian journalist and government official during the Pahlavi period. He held various official posts and established a newspaper entitled Iran-e Ma (Persian: Our Iran) ...
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Younes Asakere (Arabic: یونس عساکرة) is an Iranian Arab citizen that committed self-immolation because of his shop confiscation by municipality in March 2015, in front of municipality building. Younes ...