Zahra "Ziba" Kazemi-Ahmadabadi was an Iranian-Canadian freelance photojournalist. She gained notoriety for her arrest in Iran and the circumstances in which she was held by Iranian authorities,in whose custody she was killed. Kazemi's autopsy report revealed that she had been raped and tortured by Iranian officials while she was at Evin Prison,located within the capital city of Tehran.
Football is the most popular sport in Iran,with wrestling and volleyball as close contenders. Football has been a part of life for Iranians for many decades now and is played in schools,streets,and football clubs nationwide.
Fawzia of Egypt,also known as Fawzia Pahlavi or Fawzia Chirine,was an Egyptian princess who became Queen of Iran as the first wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,Shah of Iran. Fawzia was the daughter of Fuad I,seventh son of Ismail the Magnificent. Her marriage to the Iranian Crown Prince in 1939 was a political deal:it consolidated Egyptian power and influence in the Middle East,while bringing respectability to the new Iranian regime by association with the much more prestigious Egyptian royal house. Fawzia obtained an Egyptian divorce in 1948,under which their one daughter Princess Shahnaz would be brought up in Iran. Fawzia,who was known as the "sad queen" in the press,lived in isolation and silence after the 1952 Egyptian revolution and never published her memories of the court of Iran and Egypt.
Mehdi Karroubi is an Iranian Shia cleric and reformist politician leading the National Trust Party. Following 2009–2010 Iranian election protests,Karroubi was put under house arrest in February 2011. As of 2021,he is still confined to his house.
The Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran is the governing body for football in Iran. It was founded in 1920. The federation has been a member of FIFA since 1948 and a member of the Asian Football Confederation since 1958.
Masoumeh Ebtekar is an Iranian politician. A Reformist,she headed the country's Department of Environment from 1997 to 2005 and again from 2013 to 2017,after which she served as the Vice President for Women and Family Affairs from 2017 to 2021. Her appointment to the Cabinet of Iran in 1997 marked her as the institution's third female member overall and the first female member since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. She is currently a full-time professor in the Immunology Department of the School of Medical Sciences at Tarbiat Modares University in the city of Tehran.
Azadeh Moaveni is an Iranian-American writer,journalist,and academic. She is the former director of the Gender and Conflict Program at the International Crisis Group,and is Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Institute of Journalism. She is the author of four books,including the bestselling Lipstick Jihad and Guest House for Young Widows,which was shortlisted for numerous prizes. She contributes to The New York Times,The Guardian,and The London Review of Books.
Nasrin Soltankhah is an Iranian politician who was a Vice President under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from 2009 to 2013.
A vice president of Iran is defined by article 124 of the Constitution of Iran as anyone appointed by the President of Iran to lead an organization related to presidential affairs in Iran. As of August 2024,there are fifteen vice presidents. The first vice president leads cabinet meetings in the absence of the president.
Tahereh Saffarzadeh was an Iranian poet,writer,translator and prominent university professor.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Iran:
Fatemeh Karroubi is an Iranian politician and activist. She is the wife of Mehdi Karroubi,a politician,Shia cleric,chairman of the National Trust Party and a candidate for President of Iran during the 2005 and 2009 presidential elections. Fatemeh Karroubi campaigned openly with her husband during the 2009 presidential campaign,drawing comparisons to another high-profile political spouse,Zahra Rahnavard,the wife of Mir Hossein Mousavi. Candidates campaigning openly with their wives had previously been a rare occurrence within the Islamic Republic of Iran since the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi is an Iranian university professor and former parliamentarian,who was Iran's minister of health and medical education. She was part of President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad's inner circle.
Elham Aminzadeh is an Iranian academic,lawmaker and the former assistant to President Hassan Rouhani in citizenship rights. She was formerly vice president in legal affairs.
SayyidEbrahim Raisolsadati,better known as Ebrahim Raisi,was an Iranian politician who served as the eighth president of Iran from 2021 until his death in a helicopter crash in 2024. He was a Muslim jurist and part of the Principlist group.
Laya Joneidi is an Iranian lawyer and associate professor of private law at University of Tehran,who served as the vice president for legal affairs in the administration of President Hassan Rouhani.
Hajar Tarbiat was an Iranian women's rights activist and politician. In 1963 she was one of the first group of women elected to the National Consultative Assembly. Eight years later,she also became the first woman elected to the Senate.
Mohsen Pirhadi,is one of the former representatives of the people of Tehran in the Islamic Consultative Assembly,from 2020 to 2024. He was an observer and member of the presidium of the 11th parliament. He is the managing director of Resalat newspaper. This Iranian Shia Twelver principlist representative was a member and secretary of the fourth term of Tehran City Council (2013-2017),which was on the list of "settlers of Islamic Iran" in the elections of this term. In the elections of the 11th term of the Islamic Consultative Assembly,he finally entered the Islamic Consultative Assembly and was on the unity list of Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf at the mentioned elections.
Ensieh Khazali or Ensieh Khaz'ali is an Iranian politician and Vice President for Women and Family Affairs of the President of Iran in the 13th government.
Shina Ansari is an Iranian politician and environmentalist and currently Vice President of Iran and the Head of Iran's Department of Environment.
