Persian Realm

MARS ATTACKS : Pro Shah and Pro Mossedegh Crowd Finally Decide to Get Along ...

Having failed to put aside their differences for more than half a century, the Iranian opposition to the IRI have finally found common grounds ... well ... sort of ... >>>

Fereidoun Farrokhzad’s Remembered (Radio Farda)

Entertainer, poet and political activist Fereidoun Farrokhzad who was assassinated on the 8th of August 1992 is remembered by friends and family in Radio Farda interview. >>>

THE WEEK WITHOUT MARILYN : Iran’s Royals Visit Set of Marilyn Monroe’s Last Movie (1962)

50 years ago today, Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her Los Angeles home. She was to star in George Cuckor’s unfinished film Somethings Got to Give >>>

DIAMOND JUBILEE ALBUM: Shah of Iran arrives at Guildhall 1959

Shah of Iran greeted with pomp and circumstance at Guildhall, London. Since 1411 this impressive building has been the centre of city governance>>>

Shah and Soraya Visit Hamburg Germany (1955)

Shah and Soraya’s State Visit to Hamburg Germany in 1955. >>>

IDENTITY: IRIB TV shows first Iranian ID, but avoids mentioning Reza Shah who initiated it

Iranian State TV reports on the very first Passport issued to an Iranian citizen named Fatemeh Irani. It refuses however to mention the man who initiated the process: Reza Shah Kabir>>>

CLOSER TO GOD: Iconoclastic author of «Creation», Gore Vidal, dies age 86

Author of «Creation» died age 86>>>

AMANPOUR GRATEFUL: «Growing Up In Pahlavi Iran Were The Good Old Days»

Amanpour recounts what life was like for women in Iran under the Shah, before the 1979 revolution>>>

Mehdi Karroubi expelled from Mecca (1987) & calls for “violent spread” of Islamic Revolution (1989)

Footage showing Mehdi Karroubi arriving in Tehran after being expelled from Saudi Arabia and a Morning Call archive photo showing him as the successor to Hashemi Rafsanjani>>>

PRESIDENCY ON SCREEN: Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell in ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, discovers vampires are planning to take over the United States. He makes it his mission to eliminate them. Adapted From Seth Grahame-Smith graphic novel.

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FOR KING AND COUNTRY: Ja'afar Salmassi the teacher who won Iran's first Olympic medal

In 1948, Iran sent its first Olympic team to London. The nation's young Shah, who had set the country on a course of modernisation, saw the '48 games as an opportunity to reintroduce Iran to the world>>>

ROYAL STUNT: Queen parachutes into Olympics with James Bond in acting debut

London mayor Boris Johnson revealed the Queen, who appeared alongside James Bond's Daniel Craig in a film for the London Games' opening ceremony was 'thrilled' by her first movie part>>>

FOR KING & COUNTRY: Iran olympic Stadium '71, Munich Team '72, & Hosting Asian Games '74

Imperial Iran was among the selected candidate countries to host the Olympic Games of 1980. It had proved an excellent host for the 1974 Asian Games>>>

MASADA: Will The Battle For Aleppo Decide The Fate Of Assad ?

While the deemed « civilized » world will be treated at the Olympic Games with it’s share of « bread and circus », I cannot help but think of another far more dramatic spectacle in the making>>>

FROM TEHRAN TO CAIRO: Manoto TV’s documentary on the Shah’s exile

In an exclusive interview with Manoto 1, Shahbanou Farah tells the story of the odyssey of the Royal Family’s exile after they were ousted from Iran>>>