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Founder of the first girls’ school in Iran

Bibi Khānoom Astarābādi (1858/9 – 1921) was a notable Iranian writer, satirist, and one of the pioneering figures in the women’s movement of Iran. At the age of 22, Bibi Khatoon married Musa Khan Vaziri who was a prominent official in the Persian Cossack Brigade.

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Plasco with a New Face!

The Plasco Building was a 17-story high-rise landmark building in Tehran, the capital city of Iran. At the time of its construction in the 1960s, it was the tallest building in Iran and was considered an iconic part of the Tehran skyline. The building collapsed on 19 January 2017 during a high-rise fire.

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Avroman Became A UNESCO World Heritage Site

Avroman or Hawraman, is a mountainous region located within the provinces of Kurdistan and Kermanshah in western Iran and in north-eastern Kurdistan Region in Iraq. The main part of the Hawraman region is located in Iran and encompasses two components of the Central-Eastern Valley (Zhawaro and Takht, in Kurdistan Province); and the Western Valley (Lahon, in Kermanshah Province). The mode ...

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Who Disrupted the Wedding of Behrouz Vossoughi and Pouri Banayi?

Behrouz Vossoughi is an Iranian actor, TV host and model, with appearances in more than 90 films and plays. He started acting in films with Samuel Khachikian in Toofan dar Shahre Ma and Abbas Shabaviz’s Gole Gomshodeh (1962) and became a major star as the brooding hero of the revenge drama Qeysar (1969), directed by Masoud Kimiai. Vossoughi received the ...

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Morvary Qajar Military Cannon

Pearl Ball is a novel written by Sadegh Hedayat. This book was written in 1326, but was not allowed to be published during the author’s lifetime. The first edition of the book dates back to 1979, when it was published underground. The book was originally published under the pseudonym Hadi Sedaghat.

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