Abbas Ali Eslami was born in Sabzevar in 1878. After finishing elementary school in his hometown, he went to Mashhad to continue his education. Then he began studying jurisprudence, principles of jurisprudence, philosophy and Islamic theology at the...

Ayatollah Ataollah Ashrafi-Esfahani was born in 1902 in Sadeh, Esfahan (now Khomeinishahr). After studying elementary school in his hometown, he went to Esfahan to continue his education where he studied jurisprudence, principles of jurisprudence and...

Abadan is one of the largest cities of Khuzestan province and is called Abadan Island because it is bounded by Karun, Bahmanshir, and Arvandroud (Shatt al-Arab) rivers near the Persian Gulf. The old name of this city was Ebadan, which was changed to...

As a cultural institution in the social system of the second Pahlavi era, the mosques, that were part of the cultural system, contributed to the fulfillment of the fourth function i.e., preserving the motivational and value-based pattern. The Shah, who...

Mohammad-Sadeq Ahangari, known as Sadeq Ahangaran, was born in Ahvaz in 1957. His parents were from Dezful and had eight children, four sons and four daughters. Although during childhood he suffered from a stutter, yet he managed to complete primary...

He was born in 1947 in the city of Rey, south of Tehran. His father was a mining engineer. He pursued his primary and secondary educations in the cities of Zanjan, Kerman and Tehran and graduated in 1965. In the same year, he enrolled in the Faculty of...

The Holy Shrine of Imam al-Ridha (a)[1] and its affiliated institutions and offices are called Astan Quds Razavi, which was formerly called “Darbar Velayat Madar” and “Sarkar Feyz Asar.”   In the year 203 AH, the eighth...

The International Jewish Agency for Israel or the Jewish Agency for Israel was founded after World War I (1914-1918). It was founded by the British government, which had dominated Palestinian territory after the war ended. The Jewish Agency for Israel...

In 1930, Mohammad Mahdi Haj Ebrahim Iraqi was born in one of the neighbourhoods south of Tehran. He spent his primary education in Hafez Primary School and his secondary education in Marvi High School and Dar al-Fonun; but due to poverty, he did not...

  Guadalupe is the name of a small island in the East of the Caribbean Sea, where the leaders of the four Western-allied countries took part in an informal gathering on January 5. They discussed various issues in the world, including Iran, where...

The first institution which had been formed before the victory of the Islamic Revolution by the order of Imam Khomeini and continued its activities after the fall of the Pahlavi regime is the Council of the Islamic Revolution.   It is not...

The SAVAK, or “Sazeman-e Ettela’at va Amniyat-e Keshvar,” [Intelligence and Security Organization of the Country] was expanded in March 1957 with the approval of parliament and with the assistance of the United States, the United...

After the victory of the Islamic Revolution, the investigation of the crimes committed during the Shah’s rule during the struggle against the people began. It was left to the “Islamic Revolutionary Courts.”   The Islamic...

Hojatoleslam Sayyed Ahmad Khomeini was the second son of Imam Khomeini who had a very effective role in the communications and administration of the office of the leader of the Islamic Revolution after the victory of the Islamic...

One of the parties was formed following the Islamic Republic victory and it was soon able to become an inclusive party in the country was the Islamic Republican Party.   Preparation for the founding and formation of this party dates back to...

The first Iranian university, “The University of Tehran,” was established in 1934, and from the beginning became a place for student political activity. Students respond to the political and social issues of their community because of their...

In 1971, Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, held a celebration that was unprecedented throughout the twentieth century. The celebration that took place on 12–16 October for a week, turned Iran into an important news centre in the world....

After the victory of the Islamic Revolution, those who fought with the Shah’s government were injured by the torture of SAVAK agents in prison. Also, those who were injured in the days of the victory of the Islamic Revolution in mass demonstrations...

For the first time in Iranian history in February 1979, there were two governments in the ‎country within a week: one provisional government to Prime Minister Mahdi Bazargan introduced ‎by Ayatollah Khomeini on 4 February and the other the 37-day...

Mahdi Bazargan was an Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist, and head of ‎Iran’s interim government, making him Iran’s first prime minister after the Iranian Revolution of ‎‎1979. He was the head of the first...