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Forty years ago this week, the deadliest blizzard on record ripped through the lower Caucasus and into Iran, where it left 4,000 people dead.

Before his visit to Europe, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, the fourth king of Qajar Dynasty, was thinking of building a mansion in his capital to compete with Isfahan’s Ālī Qāpū. A tall building that he could stand on its roof and see the entire Tehran. By his order, Shams-ol-Emareh building was started in 1865 and was finished in two years. ...

Farah Pahlavi (Persian: née Farah Diba Persian: born 14 October 1938) is the widow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and was the Shahbanu (empress) of Iran. Farah was born into a prosperous family, whose fortunes were diminished after her father’s early death. While studying architecture in Paris, she was introduced to the Shah at the Iranian Embassy, and they were married ...

The Van Cleef & Arpel Diamond Necklace of Egypt’s Queen Nazli Sabri, Sells For Only €3.82 Million!

Khalil Oghab is the Father of Iranian Circus. This is a title he has given himself, yet it is also the truth. Nowadays, outside Iran, not many will have heard of him. Neither people inside nor outside the circus community.