Ruhollah Khomeini

Ruhollah Khomeini

male, deceased (1989)
Guardianship of the jurist, persian, Rūollāh Mūsavī Khomeynī, Seyyed Ruhollah Mustafavi Khomeini, man of the year, philosopher…IranianRevolution, iranian
Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Mustafavi Khomeini (Persian: روح الله موسوی خمینی "Rūollāh Mūsavī Khomeynī" (September 21 1902 – June 3 1989) wa...
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

male, deceased (1980)
suffrage to women, Anglo-Soviet invasion, Muslim, World War II, 2,500 years of continuous monarchy, 2,500 year celebration of Iran's monarchy…White Revolution, IranianRevolution, Iranian monarchy, iranian
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (October 26, 1919, Tehran – July 27, 1980, Cairo), styled His Imperial Majesty, and holding the imperial ti...
Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi

female, 40 years old
Iranian women writer, children's book, farsi, From rasht, IranianRevolution, Qajar…Iranian-French, iranian
Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی is a contemporary graphic novelist, illustrator and children's book author.
Mehdi Bazargan

Mehdi Bazargan

male, deceased (1995)
Islamic Democratic Republic, Iranian Majlis Representative, National Iranian Oil Company, Assembly of Experts, Interim Government of Iran, 1979, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi…Iranian Majlis Representatives, IranianRevolution
Mehdi Bazargan (September, 1907? - January 20, 1995) (also spelled Mahdi Bazargan) was head of Iran's interim government, virtually Iran's first...
Reza Aslan

Reza Aslan

male, 37 years old
Harvard Divinity School alumni, marketplace, boston globe, Los Angeles Times, the washington post, The New York Times…Iranian-American, IranianRevolution, iranian, Iranian American
Reza Aslan earned a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Santa Clara University, a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University, a Master of...
Googoosh

Googoosh

female, 58 years old
Gogosh, Googosh, tehran, Gougoush, Iranian films, pop music…IranianRevolution, iranian
Googoosh (also spelled as Gogosh and Googosh and Gougoush), [born Faegheh Atashin on February 7, 1951 in Tehran, Iran], is an Iranian pop singer...
Shapour Bakhtiar

Shapour Bakhtiar

male, deceased (1991)
Soldier of the French Foreign Legion, Prime Minister of Iran, Assassinated Iranian politician, Shapur Bakhtiar, IranianRevolution, shah
Dr. Shapour Bakhtiar (also Shapur Bakhtiar was an Iranian politician and the last Prime Minister of Iran under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. After...
Maxime Rodinson

Maxime Rodinson

male, deceased (2004)
Historian of religion, Jewish person, communist, Jewish, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, IranianRevolution
Maxime Rodinson was a French Marxist historian, sociologist and orientalist. The son of a Russian-Polish Jewish clothing trader who died in...
Abbas Abdi

Abbas Abdi

male
iranian, politician, IranianRevolution, Invasion of Tehran University Dormatories, Salam newspaper
Abbas Abdi is one of Iran's most influential reformists. He was the first person who stormed the United States embassy in Tehran at the early years...
Abolhassan Banisadr

Abolhassan Banisadr

male, 76 years old
shah, Government minister of Iran, Abol-hassan Banisadr, Hassan Ghafourifard, Mohammad Beheshti, Sadegh Tabatabaee…IranianRevolution
Abol-hassan Banisadr was the first President of Iran, following the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the abolition of the monarchy.