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Ali Hosseini Khamenei (19 April 1939 – 28 February 2026) was an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the supreme leader of Iran from 1989 until his assassination in 2026.

an Iranian politician

Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei (born 8 September 1969) is an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who has served as the supreme leader of Iran since 2026.

Ruhollah Mostafavi Khomeini (17 May 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989.

Maryam Mirzakhani (Persian: مریم میرزاخانی, pronounced [mæɾˈjæm miːɾzɑːxɑːˈniː]; 12 May 1977 – 14 July 2017) was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University.

Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (1201–1274), also known as Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (Arabic: نصیر الدین الطوسی; Persian: نصیر الدین طوسی) or simply as (al-)Tusi, was a Persian polymath, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian.

He was born in Nishapur, Iran and lived during the Seljuk era, around the time of the First Crusade.

Ali Shariati Mazinani (23 November 1933 – 18 June 1977) was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who specialised in the sociology of religion.

Kashan, Iran

is an Iranian professional bodybuilder, TV presenter and actor

is an Iranian professional bodybuilder

is an Iranian rock climber

is former Iranian heavyweight weightlifter

Elnaz Rekabi (Persian: الناز رکابی Persian pronunciation: [elˈnɒːz ɾekɒːˈbiː]; born 20 August 1989) is an Iranian competition climber.

is an Iranian former Strongman and Powerlifter

is an Iranian competition speed climber from Borujerd

is an Iranian professional poker player based in Aliso Viejo

is an Iranian strongman competing for Iran

is an Iranian professional bodybuilder

is an Iranian councilor and former taekwondo athlete

is a professional Iranian basketball player

is an Iranian Strongman, competing for Iran in international strongman competitions

Golestaneh was born in Tehran, Iran in 1983.

Hossein Rezazadeh (Persian: حسین رضازاده; born 12 May 1978) is an Iranian politician and retired weightlifter.

is an Iranian professional snooker player

is an Iranian Paralympic powerlifter

is an Iranian heavyweight kick-boxer

is an Iranian strongman and powerlifter

is an Iranian mixed martial artist and wushu athlete currently competing in the Professional Fighters League

is an Iranian Strongman and Powerlifter

is an Iranian strongman

is an Iranian professional bodybuilder and coach

is an Iranian former professional basketball player

is an Iranian BMX cyclist and coach.

is an Iranian motocross racer

is an Iranian strongman and powerlifter

is an Iranian strongman, bodybuilder and power athlete

was an Iranian powerlifter

is an Iranian bodybuilder and mixed martial artist.

is an Iranian karateka

Culture and style under a ruling dynasty that governed Iran from 1501 to 1736

Timurid architecture was an important stage in the architectural history of Iran and Central Asia during the late 14th and 15th centuries.

Taste of Cherry (Persian: طعم گیلاس..., Ta’m-e gīlās...) is a 1997 Iranian minimalist drama film written, produced, edited, and directed by Abbas Kiarostami, and starring Homayoun Ershadi as a middle-aged Tehran man who drives through a city suburb in search of someone willing to carry out the task of burying him after he commits suicide.

Close-Up (Persian: کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک, Klūzāp, nemā-ye nazdīk) is a 1990 Iranian docufiction written, directed and edited by Abbas Kiarostami.

The Cow (Persian: گاو, Gāv, Gaav, or Gav) is a 1969 Iranian film directed by Dariush Mehrjui, written by Gholam-Hossein Saedi based on his own short story, and starring Ezzatolah Entezami as Masht Hassan.

Asafoetida is native to Afghanistan and Iran.

is a traditional Iranian dish

The pistachio tree is native to Iran and Central Asia.

Rose oil likely originated in ancient Iran where the production technique was invented.

Shirin polo, also commonly known as Persian wedding rice or Rosh Hashanah rice, is a traditional Persian rice pilaf that is commonly served to mark special occasions such as weddings.

The majority of the evidence points to its originating in what is now Iran.

North Caucasus, South Caucasus, North Iran

Iran, Israel and the West Bank

The Shah Mosque (Persian: مسجد شاه, lit. 'Masjed-e Shah'), also officially known as the Imam Mosque or Imam Khomeini Mosque, is a mosque located on the south side of Naqsh-e Jahan Square in Isfahan, in the province of Isfahan, Iran.

Susa ( SOO-sə) was an ancient city in the lower Zagros Mountains about 250 km (160 mi) east of the Tigris, between the Karkheh and Dez Rivers in Iran.

The Anubanini petroglyph (Persian: سنگ‌نگاره آنوبانی‌نی), also called Sar-e Pol-e Zohab II or Sarpol-i Zohab relief, is a rock relief from the Akkad period (circa 2300 BC) or the Isin-Larsa period (early second millennium BC) located in Kermanshah province, Iran.

It is situated in the plains of Marvdasht, encircled by the southern Zagros Mountains, in Fars province of Iran.

It is headquartered in Tehran, and is owned by the Iranian government's Islamic Development Organization (IIDO).

The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC; Persian: شرکت ملّی نفت ایران, romanized: Sherkat-e Melli-ye Naft-e Irān) is a government-owned national oil and natural gas producer and distributor under the direction of the Ministry of Petroleum of Iran.

Tasnim News Agency (Persian: خبرگزاری تسنیم) is a semi-official news agency in Iran associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The Tehran Times is an English-language daily newspaper published in Iran, founded in 1979 as a "voice of the Islamic Revolution".

Sidhwa lectured on Zoroastrian Theology in India, Pakistan, Iran, Canada, Britain, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates.

Táhirih (Ṭāhira) (Persian: طاهره, "The Pure One," also called Qurrat al-ʿAyn (Arabic: قرة العين "Solace/Consolation of the Eyes") are both titles of Fatimah Baraghani/Umm-i Salmih (1814 or 1817 – August 16–27, 1852), an influential poet, women's rights activist and theologian of the Bábí faith in Iran.

The Islamic Republic Development Bank is an Iranian government bank that is to be managed by the Central Bank of Iran.

The University of Tehran (UT) (Persian: دانشگاه تهران, Dâneshgâh-e Tehrân) is a public collegiate university in Iran, and the oldest and most prominent Iranian university located in Tehran.

The Iranian Space Research Center (ISRC, Persian: پژوهشگاه فضایی ایران, romanized: Pazhoheshgah e Fazái e Irán) is a research center and institute established by Iran's Ministry of Information and Communications Technology in 2000 to perform research in the field of space and manufacture Iranian civil satellites and space rockets.

is a multi-service military force of Iran and one of Iran's two military forces

Iran, Islamic Republic of Present, no details

cantaloupes were cultivated in Egypt and migrated across to Iran and Northwest India

Wild emmer is native to the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East, growing in the grass and woodland of hill country from modern-day Israel to Iran.

are primarily cultivated in the central and north parts of Iran

Iran, Islamic Republic of Present, no details

Epidemics have been reported in countries such as The United States, Iran, Turkey, and Italy.

the famous high-quality material mined in the area that is now known as Iran

is a system of special courts in the Islamic Republic of Iran that handles cases defined by the state as