Imad Fayez Mughniyeh, alias al-Hajj Radwan, was a Lebanese militant leader who was the founding member of Lebanon's Islamic Jihad Organization and number two in Hezbollah's leadership. Information about Mughniyeh is limited, but he is believed to have been Hezbollah's chief of staff and understood to have overseen Hezbollah's military, intelligence, and security apparatuses. He was one of the main founders of Hezbollah in the 1980s. He has been described as "a brilliant military tactician and very elusive". He was often referred to as an ‘untraceable ghost’.
The Quds Force is one of five branches of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) specializing in unconventional warfare and military intelligence operations. U.S. Army's Iraq War General Stanley McChrystal describes the Quds Force as an organization analogous to a combination of the CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the United States. Responsible for extraterritorial operations, the Quds Force supports non-state actors in many countries, including Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Houthi movement, and Shia militias in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. According to Michael Wigginton et al., the Al-Quds Force is "a classic example of state-sponsored terrorism."
Qasem Soleimani was an Iranian military officer who served in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). From 1998 until his assassination by the United States in 2020, he was the commander of the Quds Force, an IRGC division primarily responsible for extraterritorial and clandestine military operations, and played a key role in the Syrian Civil War through securing Russian intervention. He was described as "the single most powerful operative in the Middle East" and a "genius of asymmetric warfare." Former Mossad director Yossi Cohen said Soleimani's strategies had "personally tightened a noose around Israel's neck."
Zeynab Jalalian is a Kurdish Iranian who has been convicted a mohareb and sentenced to death by an Islamic Revolutionary Court for allegedly being a member of the Kurdish militant group PJAK, which she denies. Jalalian's sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment.
Human rights organizations have condemned Jalalian's verdict, torture, conditions of incarceration and the inattention to her medical care.
Hashem Safieddine is a Lebanese Shia cleric who has served as the head of Hezbollah's Executive Council since 2001. A maternal cousin of Hassan Nasrallah, Safieddine was generally considered the "number two" in Hezbollah before Nasrallah's assassination in 2024. Safieddine has been declared a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the United States and a terrorist by Saudi Arabia.
Freeway 3, or more commonly known as Tehran-Shomal Freeway or Tehran-Chalus Freeway will be a freeway in Northern Iran, connecting Tehran to cities of western Mazandaran. Currently, sections 1, 2 & 4 are in service and section 3 is under construction. The freeway runs parallel to Road 59, the old road connecting Karaj to Chalus.
Ghasem Amir-Yavarkandi also known as Ghasem Amiryavari, was a member of the Iranian senior national boxing team. Yavari joined the "Niroo va Rasti" Club in 1947 at the age of sixteen, where he started his boxing career and became a member of "Jafari" Club later on, where he stayed until 1962 which was the end of his national boxing championship career.
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was an Iranian politician and diplomat who served as foreign minister of Iran from 2021 until his death in 2024. He was the deputy foreign minister for Arab and African Affairs between 2011 and 2016.
Qasem Soleimani Dashtaki is an Iranian reformist politician, who served as the governor of Khuzestan Province from February 2021 to September 2021. Dashtaki was Governor of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province from 2013 to 2017 and Governor of Ilam Province from 2017 to 2021. Dashtaki was born in Dashtak in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province.
Jihad Mughniyah was a Lebanese politician and prominent member of the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah, and the son of Imad Mughniyeh. He was killed in 2015 in the Mazraat Amal incident, an airstrike attributed to Israel.
Masoud Soleimani is an Iranian medical professor. He was imprisoned in the United States on October 25, 2018, pending trial. He was held until his release on December The crime he was charged for would usually result in fine but in this case the imprisonment seemed to be politically motivated. "I don’t see any evidence that there was criminal intent here," says Clif Burns, a lawyer at Crowell & Moring in Washington DC who specializes in national-security law, including export controls and trade sanctions.[3][4].11, 2019, in a prisoner swap for Xiyue Wang.On December 8, 2019, president Donald Trump thanked Tehran for "a very fair negotiation" and said: "See, we can make a deal together!".[6] Soleimani had been invited by the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota to lead a research program; upon his arrival in the United States, he was arrested and transferred to a prison in Atlanta. Following the prisoner swap, charges were then dismissed.
The funeral of Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was held from 4 to 7 January 2020 in some cities in Iraq and Iran – including Baghdad, Karbala, Najaf, Ahvaz, Mashhad, Tehran, Qom, and his hometown Kerman.
Esmail Qaani is an Iranian brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and commander of its Quds Force — a division primarily responsible for extraterritorial terror and clandestine operations. The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, appointed Qaani to succeed Qasem Soleimani as Commander of the Quds Force.
Dr. Mahnaz Shirali is an Iranian author and political sociologist. She graduated in architecture engineering from faculty of fine arts of Tehran University in 1992. She moved to France in 1994 where she obtained her PhD in sociology from School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris in 2000. Her PhD thesis was about crisis in youth Iranian generation.
In April 2021, more than three hours of audiotape was leaked from a seven-hour interview between economist Saeed Leylaz and Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. The taped conversation was connected to an oral history project, titled "In the Islamic Republic, the military field rules," that documents the work of then-president Hassan Rouhani and his government. The tape was obtained by the London-based news channel Iran International and publicized by The New York Times. Zarif did not dispute the authenticity of the leaked tape, but questioned the motive. Iran International noted that Zarif's claim was "not very credible."
Babak Khorramdin was an Iranian director and writer.
Mehdi Karampour is an Iranian film director, producer, writer and photographer.
The Islamic Resistance Movement of Azerbaijan, mostly referred to as Husayniyun, or Hüseynçilər, is an Azerbaijani Shia Islamist armed group, and socio-political movement. It is backed by Iran.
This list reports the notable citizens, civil and political activists, students, journalists, lawyers and athletes who have been arrested in Iran during the ongoing protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022. There is no clear information about the whereabouts and the situation of many of them.
Since the early 1990s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been sponsoring the militant organization Hamas with military aid and training and financial aid. Iran has remained a key patron of Hamas, providing them with funds, weapons, and training.
