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Iran’s currency was at 32,000 rials to the dollar at the time of Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. The rial had traded at 256,000 to $1 on Thursday, and markets were closed Friday, the start of the weekend in Iran

The town is named after Ecbatana, the capital city of the ancient Median Empire around 700 BC. It was the first capital of ancient Iranians to be established in Western Asia, and is the ancestor of the modern city of Hamedan. The word Ekbātān is a variant of Ecbatana (Greek: Εκβάτανα Ekbátana) which derives from Old Persian Haŋgmetana, meaning “place ...

Serj Avakian Born in Iran Graduated from Croydon Fine Arts Academy and Painting Department of London University The first Iranian member of L.S.I.A.D

Esmat Bagherpour Baboli (26 February 1925 – 1 September 2004), also known as Delkash, was an Iranian diva singer and occasional actress with a rare and unique voice.

Twenty-five years after the gruesome murder of Fereydoun Farrokhzad, a famous Iranian singer and performer, his fans and friends are still seeking answers. Farrokhzad’s body was found with multiple stab wounds on August 6, 1992, in his apartment in the German city of Bonn.