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Zahra Kazemi was born in Iran in 1948 but later emigrated to Canada and became a citizen in 1993. She worked as a freelance photojournalist, covering conflicts and social issues in various countries, including Iran. In June 2003, Kazemi traveled to Iran to cover the presidential elections and document the country’s political and social climate. […]
Narrative of the Islamic Republic of Iran about the eight years of Iran-Iraq war is a man’s narrative. Iranian women fought on the fronts in some cases. According to the statistics of Shahid Foundation, the number of women killed in the Iran-Iraq war is 6,428. Some 500 Iranian women reportedly fought as combatants during the […]
Cyrus was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian empire. Under his rule, the empire embraced all of the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, expanded vastly and eventually conquered most of Western Asia and much of Central Asia. Spanning from the Mediterranean Sea and Hellespont in the west to the […]
On February 21, 1994, at 3:00 p.m., a 54-year-old beautiful woman drove her car to Tajrish Square north of Tehran. Tajirsh Square was noisy and crowded. She stopped her car and walked to the Bazar of the Square. She first tore off her headscarf and emptied a gasoline can on her head.Then she shouted “Death […]
The history of Iranian cooking goes as far back as sixth century B.C. when Cyrus the Great established the Achaemenid Persian Empire which stretched from India to Egypt and parts of Greece. This vast territory unified a conduit of culture and cuisine, and native Persian ingredients such as saffron and rose water were spread throughout […]
The white revolution was a series of reforms resulting in aggressive modernization in Iran launched on 26 January 1963 by the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The reforms resulted in a great redistribution of wealth to Iran’s working class, explosive economic growth in subsequent decades, rapid urbanization, and deconstruction of Iran’s feudalist customs. The reforms were […]
Chapar Khaneh is the Persian term that refers to the postal service system used throughout the Persian Empire 559-530 BC. It was created by Cyrus & later developed by Darius as the royal method of communication throughout the empire. Each station was mainly located along the Royal Road, an ancient highway which stretched from Sardis […]
In late 1920, the Persian Soviet Socialist Republic in Rasht was preparing to march on Tehran with “a guerrilla force of 1,500 Jangalis, Kurds, Armenians and Azerbaijanis”, reinforced by the Bolsheviks’ Red Army. This fact, along with various other disorders, mutinies and unrest in the country created an acute political crisis in the capital. By […]
On March 8, 1979, Iranian women’s celebrations of International Women’s Day turned into protests against the Ayatollah Khomeini who was only a few weeks away from taking power. Tens of thousands of brave Iranian women rallied together in the streets of Tehran just after the Shah was ousted. Khomeini vowed to impose a mandatory hijab […]
Nowruz has been celebrated in Iran and the Persian diaspora for more than 3,000 years. Its roots are as a feast day in Zoroastrianism, a religion practiced in ancient Persia that viewed the arrival of spring as a victory over darkness. The Persian New Year is widely celebrated in regions which were once part of […]
