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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.

Dr. Bakhtiar was born in Borujen in the Province of Chahar Mahal in 1872. He attended traditional school (called, in Persian, Maktab Khaneh) from the ages of five to ten years .

Khalkhali was one of Khomeini’s circle of disciples as far back as 1955 and reconstructed the former secret society of Islamic assassins known as the Fadayan-e Islam after its suppression, but was not a well-known figure to the public prior to the Islamic Revolution.

Reza Shah Pahlavi was born in the village of Alasht in Savadkuh County, Mazandaran Province, in 1878, to Major Abbas-Ali Khan and Noush-Afarin.