84 Notable alumni of
Islamic Azad University, Shirvan
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Islamic Azad University, Shirvan is 431st in the world, 87th in Asia, and 2nd in Iran by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 84 notable alumni from Islamic Azad University, Shirvan sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Golshifteh Farahani
- Occupations
- singerfilm actor
- Biography
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Rahavard Farahani, known professionally as Golshifteh Farahani (گلشیفته فراهانی), is an Iranian and French actress. She is known for her performances in M for Mother (2006), Body of Lies (2008), About Elly (2009), The Patience Stone (2012), Paterson (2016), Girls of the Sun (2018), Extraction (2020) and its sequel Extraction 2 (2023), and Invasion (2021–present). She was nominated for the Most Promising Actress Award for The Patience Stone at the 2014 César Awards.
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Mohammad-Reza Golzar
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- screenwritermodelsingeractor
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Mohammad Reza Golzar is an Iranian actor.
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Sahar Dolatshahi
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- film actorperforming artistactor
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Sahar Dolatshahi is an Iranian actress. She is best known for her roles in Ice Age (2015), Istanbul Junction (2018), The Frog (2020–2021), I Want to Live (2021), and Viper of Tehran (2024). She has received various accolades, including two Crystal Simorghs and an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award.
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Payman Maadi
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- screenwritercostume designerfilm directoractor
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Payman Maadi also known as Peyman Moadi, is an Iranian-American actor, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for starring in the films A Separation (2011) and About Elly (2009) by Iranian Academy Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi and Last Knights (2015) and the independent drama film Camp X-Ray (2014). For his role in A Separation, he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival (2011).
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Parinaz Izadyar
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- actor
- Biography
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Parinaz Izadyar is an Iranian actress. She is mostly known for her willingness to play dramatic roles, making her one of the most acclaimed actresses of her generation. Izadyar has received various accolades, including a Crystal Simorgh, two Hafez Awards and an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award.
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Hamed Behdad
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- singeractortelevision actor
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Hamed Behdad is an Iranian actor and singer. He has received various accolades, including a Crystal Simorgh, a Hafez Award, an Iran Cinema Celebration Award and two Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Awards. He has won the Golden Goblet Award for Best Actor at the 2019 Shanghai International Film Festival for his role in Castle of Dreams (2019).
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Saed Soheili
- Enrolled in Islamic Azad University, Shirvan
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in graphics
- Occupations
- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Saed Soheili is an Iranian actor. He is best known for his acting in Guidance Patrol (2012), A Few Cubic Meters of Love (2014), Crazy Rook (2014), and Lottery (2018).
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Bahram Radan
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- modelsingeractor
- Biography
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Bahram Radan is an Iranian actor. He has received various accolades, including two Crystal Simorgh and a Hafez Award.
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Merila Zarei
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- actor
- Biography
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Merila Zarei is an Iranian actress. She has received various accolades, including a Silver Bear, three Crystal Simorghs, four Hafez Awards, four Iran Cinema Celebration Awards and an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award.
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Amir Jafari
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- actor
- Biography
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Amir Jafari is an Iranian actor.
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Amir Aliakbari
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- mixed martial arts fighteramateur wrestler
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Amir Aliakbari is an Iranian wrestler and mixed martial artist currently signed to ONE Championship, where he competes in the Heavyweight division. He has also competed for Full Metal Dojo in Thailand Absolute Championship Berkut (ACB) and Rizin Fighting Federation.
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Hanieh Tavassoli
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- actor
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Hanieh Tavassoli is an Iranian actress. She has received various accolades, including a Crystal Simorgh and an Iran Cinema Celebration Award, in addition to nominations for five Hafez Awards and an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award.
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Shaghayegh Farahani
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- actor
- Biography
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Shaghayegh Farahani is an Iranian actress. She is the daughter of actor Behzad Farahani, and sister of actress Golshifteh Farahani.
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Arya Aziminejad
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- composer
- Biography
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Arya Aziminejad is an Iranian music composer.
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Mohammad-Reza Foroutan
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- actorradio personalitysingertelevision actorvoice actor
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Mohammad Reza Foroutan is an Iranian actor and singer.
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Mahtab Keramati
- Enrolled in Islamic Azad University, Shirvan
- Studied microbiology
- Occupations
- film actor
- Biography
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Mahtab Keramati is an Iranian actress. She has received various accolades, including a Crystal Simorgh, two Hafez Awards. In August 2006, she was appointed as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in Iran.
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Eshaq Jahangiri
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- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Eshaq Jahangiri Kouhshahi is an Iranian politician who served as the sixth first vice president from 2013 until 2021 in Hassan Rouhani's government. Jahangiri was the minister of industries and mines from 1997 to 2005 under President Mohammad Khatami. Before that, he was the governor of Isfahan Province. He was also a member of Parliament for two terms.
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Yekta Naser
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- actor
- Biography
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Yekta Naser is an Iranian actress and model born on November 3, 1978 in Tehran, Iran.
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Behnoush Bakhtiari
- Enrolled in Islamic Azad University, Shirvan
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in French
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Behnoosh Bakhtiari is an Iranian actress.
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Babak Hamidian
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- actor
- Biography
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Babak Hamidian is an Iranian actor. He has received various accolades, including a Crystal Simorgh, a Hafez Award, an Iran Cinema Celebration Award and two Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Awards.
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Sima Tirandaz
- Enrolled in Islamic Azad University, Shirvan
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in play
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Sima Tirandaz is an Iranian actress.
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Rima Raminfar
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- writeractorscreenwriter
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Rima Raminfar is an Iranian actress and screenwriter. She is best known for her role as Homa Saadat in Capital (2011–2021). She has received various accolades, including a Hafez Award and an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award, in addition to nominations for a Crystal Simorgh and an Iran Cinema Celebration Award.
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Sahar Jafari Jozani
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- writerfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Sahar Jafari Jozani is an Iranian-American TV and cinema actress and writer. She is the daughter of Iranian director, Masoud Jafari Jozani.
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Shila Khodadad
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- modelactor
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Shila Khodadad is an Iranian actress. She has played in some films such as Marriage, Iranian Style, Saint Petersburg and in a famous Iranian TV series, Traveler from India.
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Mehran Ahmadi
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- film directorfilm actoractor
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Mehran Ahmadi is an Iranian actor, director and assistant director. At the 31st Fajr Film Festival in 1391, he was nominated for the Crystal Simorgh for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Rooze Roshan.
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Hengameh Qaziani
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- actor
- Biography
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Hengameh Ghaziani is an Iranian former actress. She has received various accolades, including two Crystal Simorgh, a Hafez Award and an Iran Cinema Celebration Award.
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Zar Amir-Ebrahimi
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- photographerfilm directoractor
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Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, known professionally as Zar Amir Ebrahimi (زر امیرابراهیمی, pronunciation), is an Iranian-French actress, producer and director. She rose to international prominence for her performance as journalist Arezoo Rahimi in the crime thriller Holy Spider (2022), for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and Robert Award for Best Actress.
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Hossein Ronaghi
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- blogger
- Biography
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Hossein Ronaghi Maleki better known as Hossein Ronaghi (Persian: حسین رونقی) is an Iranian human rights activist and blogger. He spent a total of 6 years in prison since 2009 for his activities. In 2022, after his re-arrest he became one of the well-known faces of Mahsa Amini protests.
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Parvaz Homay
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- composersinger
- Biography
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Parvaz Homay is an Iranian composer, lyricist, vocalist, and performer specializing in Persian classical-style music. Also known by his birth name Saeid Jafarzadeh Ahmadsargurabi (سعید جعفرزاده احمدسرگورابی), he is the founder and leader of the Mastan Ensemble.
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Ateneh Faghih Nasiri
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- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Ateneh Faghih Nasiri is an Iranian actress. She is best known for playing the title role in the TV series Khaleh Sara (Aunt Sara) and her portrayal of Leili in the popular TV show Khaneye Sabz (The Green House).
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Saeed Mortazavi
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- judge
- Biography
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Saeed Mortazavi is an Iranian conservative politician, former judge and former prosecutor. He was the prosecutor of the Islamic Revolutionary Court, and Prosecutor General of Tehran, a position he held from 2003 to 2009. He has been called as "butcher of the press" and a "torturer of Tehran" by some observers. Mortazavi has been accused of the torture and death in custody of Iranian-Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi by the Canadian government and was named by 2010 Iranian parliamentary report as the man responsible for the abuse of dozens and death of three political prisoners at Kahrizak detention center in 2009. He was put on trial in February 2013 after a parliamentary committee blamed him for the torture and deaths of at least three detainees who participated in the protests against President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's reelection. On 15 November 2014, he was banned from all political and legal positions for life.
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Shabnam Gholikhani
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- screenwriterwriterfilm directoractor
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Shabnam Qolikhani is an Iranian TV, and cinema actress.
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Kambiz Dirbaz
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- actortelevision actor
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Kambiz Dirbaz is an Iranian actor. He is best known for his roles in Duel (2006), The Outcast (2007), In the Eye of the Wind (2009–2010), and Michael (2015). He has received various accolades, including a Crystal Simorgh.
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Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani
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- entrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani is an Iranian businessman and the fourth child of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former president of Iran. He is known as an Iranian "Aghazadeh".
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Kamand Amirsoleimani
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- actor
- Biography
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Kamand Amirsoleimani is an Iranian actress, born on June 6, 1973, in Tehran.
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Behnam Tashakkor
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- actor
- Biography
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Behnam Tashakkor is an Iranian actor.
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Hadi Saei
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- taekwondo athlete
- Biography
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Hadi Saei is an Iranian councilor and former taekwondo athlete who became the most successful Iranian athlete in Olympic history and the most titled champion in this sport by winning 9 world class titles (three olympic titles in 2000, 2004 and 2008, two world championships titles, four world cup titles and one world olympic qualification tournament). Earlier in his career and in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Saei had won the Bronze medal. He was elected as member of City Council of Tehran in 2006 local elections and was reelected in 2013 but lost the 2017 election. He is one of the three most medal winners olympians in the sport of Taekwondo.
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Behnaz Jafari
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- actor
- Biography
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Behnaz Jafari is an Iranian actress.
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Shahram Haghighatdoost
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- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Shahram Haghighat Doost is an Iranian actor. He earned a Crystal Simorgh nomination for his performance in The Heart of Raqqah (2024) at the 42nd Fajr International Film Festival and received a Hafez Award nomination for his role in Kianoush's Garden (2024).
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Ehsan Khajeh Amiri
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- composersinger
- Biography
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Ehsan Khajeh-Amiri is an Iranian pop music singer. He is the son of Persian traditional music singer Iraj. He sang Iran national football team's official song for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. He has a son named Arshan, born in March 2013.
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Hossein Alizadeh
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- musiciancomposermusicologistteacher
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Hossein Alizadeh is an Iranian musician, composer, radif-preserver, researcher, teacher, and tar, shurangiz and setar instrumentalist and improviser. He has performed with such musicians as Shahram Nazeri, Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Alireza Eftekhari and Jivan Gasparyan, as well as with a number of orchestras and ensembles.
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Nasim Adabi
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- actor
- Biography
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Nasim Adabi is an Iranian actress. She is best known for her roles in Shahrzad (2015–2018) and Golshifteh (2018). She has received various accolades, including a Fajr International Theater Festival Award, in addition to nomination for a Hafez Award.
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Zahra Rahnavard
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- essayistuniversity teacherpoliticianjournalistsculptor
- Biography
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Zahra Rahnavard is an Iranian academic, artist and politician. Rahnavard is a university professor, artist, and intellectual who was under house arrest from February 2011 to May 2018. In 2009, Foreign Policy magazine named her one of the world's most distinguished thinkers. She is the wife of former Iran Prime Minister Mir Hussein Musavi. In part of her work, she has underlined the need for men to respect the laws of the hijab in the same way as women, as well as a general activist for women's rights in the Middle East.
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Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani
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- activist
- Biography
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Faezeh Hashemi Bahramani, better known as Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani is an Iranian women's rights activist, politician and former journalist who served as a member of Iranian parliament from 1996 to 2000. She is also president of Executives of Construction Party women's league and the former editor-in-chief of Zan newspaper.
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Faghiheh Soltani
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- actor
- Biography
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Faghiheh Soltani is an Iranian actress.
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Masoud Dehnamaki
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- politicianwriterbloggertelevision directorfilm director
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Masoud Dehnamaki is an Iranian conservative activist, filmmaker, and former journalist.
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Navid Pourfaraj
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- actor
- Biography
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Navid Pourfaraj is an Iranian actor. He is best known for his role as Amir in Sheeple (2018) for which he earned a Crystal Simorgh, a Hafez Award, an Iran Cinema Celebration Award and an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award nominations. He won the Best Actor Award at the 8th Duhok International Film Festival for his performance in Zalava (2021).
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Afshin Peyrovani
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- association football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Mohammad Ali "Afshin" Peyrovani is a retired Iranian footballer and a football coach. He is the younger brother of Gholam Peyrovani and Amir Hossein Peyrovani.
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Ameneh Bahrami
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- writer
- Biography
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Ameneh Bahrami is an Iranian woman blinded in an acid attack. She became the focus of international controversy after demanding that her attacker, Majid Movahedi, be punished by being similarly blinded. The punishment is permitted under the Qisas principle of sharia.
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Hossein Allahkaram
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- politician
- Biography
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Hossein Allahkaram is an Iranian conservative activist, pundit and former military officer.
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Kayhan Maleki
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- actor
- Biography
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Kayhan Maleki is an Iranian actor.
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Shirin Bina
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- actor
- Biography
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Shirin Bina is an Iranian theater, cinema and TV actress born on August 20, 1964 Marand, Iran.
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Kamran Najafzadeh
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- writercorrespondentreporterjournalist
- Biography
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Kamran Najafzadeh is an Iranian journalist, reporter and television presenter who works for the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting. He is known for founding IRIB 20:30 show.
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Saeid Daghighi
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- association football player
- Biography
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Saeid Daghighi is a former Iranian football player and current manager of kheybar khoramabad. As a player, he was banned for six months for doping in 2008.
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Reza Salehi Amiri
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- politician
- Biography
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Reza Salehi Amiri is an Iranian politician and current minister of Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts since 2024.
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Afshin Zinoori
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- voice actor
- Biography
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Afshin Zinouri is an Iranian voice actor who is known for Persian voice-dubbing foreign films and TV programs. He was born in Tehran. He is known for dubbing over Elijah Wood's role as Frodo Baggins from The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and has also dubbed over some of Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon's voice roles in films they starred in.
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Minoo Khaleghi
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- politicianjuristlawyer
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Minoo Khaleghi is an Iranian jurist and reformist activist. In the 2016 parliamentary elections, Khaleghi won a seat, however she was disqualified by the Guardian Council after the election.
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Ali Fathollahzadehkhoei
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- journalistbusinessperson
- Biography
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Ali Fathollahzadeh Khoei is an Iranian businessman and football administrator, who was formerly the chairman of the Esteghlal F.C. He is also the formerly managing-director of Esteghlal Javan Newspaper.
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Shayesteh Irani
- Enrolled in Islamic Azad University, Shirvan
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in theatre
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Shayesteh Irani is an Iranian film, television and stage actress.
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Sajad Ganjzadeh
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- karateka
- Biography
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Sajjad Ganjzadeh is an Iranian karateka. Competing in the above 84 kg kumite division he won gold medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, 2014 and 2016 world championships, 2013 and 2017 Asian championships, and 2018 Asian Games. He has also won multiple awards in competitions within the Karate1 Premier League.
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Morteza Talaie
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- politician
- Biography
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Morteza Talaie is an Iranian retired commander of the Police forces. He was appointed as Tehran's Police forces commander in 2000 and was commander until he retired in 2005.
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Marzieh Afkham
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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Marzieh Afkham is an Iranian diplomat who served as the ambassador to Malaysia for four years.
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Shamseddin Hosseini
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Sayyid Shamseddin Hosseini is an Iranian politician, who served as the minister of economic affairs and finance from 2008 to 2013.
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Ahmad Amirabadi
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- politician
- Biography
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Ahmad Amirabadi Farahani is an Iranian conservative politician and former military officer of Revolutionary Guards.
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Hoseinali Amiri
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- politician
- Biography
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Hossein-Ali Amiri is an Iranian jurist and conservative politician who currently serves as the governor general of Fars province since 2024.
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Mohammad-Hassan Nami
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- geographer
- Biography
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Mohammad-Hassan Nami is an Iranian military officer who formerly served as the Head of Crisis Management Organization of the Iran country from 2022 to 2024.
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Sareh Javanmardi
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- sport shooter
- Biography
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Sareh Javanmardi is an Iranian Paralympic shooter from Shiraz, Iran. Also known as Sareh Javanmardidodmani or Sareh Javanmardi Dodmani, she is the first ever female gold medalist from Iran to win in the shooting category of the Paralympics Games.
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Alireza Monadi Sefidan
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- politician
- Biography
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Alireza Monadi Sefidan is an Iranian politician.
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Asadollah Abbasi
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- politician
- Biography
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Asadollah Abbasi is an Iranian conservative politician who formerly served as the Governor general of Gilan province from 2021 to 2024.
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Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour
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- cartoonistfilm directorcaricaturist
- Biography
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Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour is an Iranian cartoonist, comic artist, and art director. He holds a bachelor of painting from the Azad University of Tehran (1378).
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Sadegh Karamyar
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- screenwriterwriternovelistfilm director
- Biography
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Sadegh Karamyar is an Iranian writer, journalist, screenwriter, and film director. He is best known for his novels, particularly Namira (Immortal) and Ghanimat (The Spoils). He is the screenwriter and director of such TV series as Yek Rooz Ghabl (The Day Before)
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Mitra Farahani
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- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Mitra Farahani is an Iranian filmmaker and painter who currently lives in Paris.
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Mohammad Jamshidi
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Mohammad Jamshidi Jafarabadi, known more simple as Mohammad Jamshidi, is an Iranian professional basketball player who is playing for the Mahram Tehran in the Iranian Super League. A 6'6" swingman, he is also a member of the Iranian men's national basketball team.
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Maryam Faghihimani
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- writer
- Biography
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Maryam Faghihimani is an Iranian researcher and activist, living in Norway and is the founder and President of the Centre for Cultural Diplomacy & Development (CCDD). She believes economic cooperation is the best way to promote peace in the "seemingly insuperable" Arab-Israeli conflict. The daughter of Sayed Kamal Faghih Imani, a leading Iranian ayatollah who holds a strong anti-Israeli perspective, she has labored to promote understanding and acceptance between Muslims and Jews as well as building friendship dialogues between Iranians, Israelis and Arabs.
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Hamidreza Fouladgar
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- politician
- Biography
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Hamidreza Fouladgar is an Iranian conservative politician and former member of the Parliament of Iran representing Isfahan electoral district.
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Mohsen Kouhkan
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- politician
- Biography
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Mohsen Kouhkan Rizi is an Iranian economist and conservative politician who represented Lenjan district in the Parliament of Iran from 2016 to 2020. He previously held the position from 1992 to 1996 and 2004 until 2008.
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Saeid Shirini
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Saeid Shirini or Saad Shirini is an Iranian businessman and the former team manager of Persepolis. After Mohammad Rouyanian becomes chairman of the Persepolis, Saad Shirini was appointed as one of his deputies. After the resignation of Mohammad Zadmehr as team manager of the club, he was appointed as his caretaker successor. Before the start of the new season, his appointment becomes permanent. After that, many Persepolis legends criticized his appointment because he is not a footballer person. On 25 February 2014, he was arrested by the Iranian police because of his economic activities at his own company, Sadra. On 1 March, he was removed from his position as team manager of Persepolis.
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Farvartish Rezvaniyeh
- Occupations
- humoristwritervideo journalistjournalist
- Biography
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Farvartish Rezvaniyeh is an Iranian video journalist, writer, and satirist.
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Parviz Kazemi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Parviz Kazemi is an Iranian politician and former Minister of Welfare and Social Security in the first cabinet of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad proposed him to parliament in August 2005 but has resigned after one year.
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Samira Alikhanzadeh
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Samira Alikhanzadeh is an Iranian visual artist and painter. She lives and works in Tehran.
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Nurieh Mozaffari
- Occupations
- painterlecturer
- Biography
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Nurieh Mozaffari is an Iranian–born contemporary painter.
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Mehdi Bagheri
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Mehdi Bagheri, (born 16 November 1980), is an Iranian kamancheh player and composer.
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Komeil Bahmanpour
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Komeil Bahmanpour is an Iranian entrepreneur, software architect and author. He is a co-founder and the president of Chortkeh.
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Amirhossein Kermanshahi
- Occupations
- modelactor
- Biography
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Amirhossein Kermanshahi is an Iranian actor and photo model. he played in the black intelligence series made by Masoud Abparvar for first time in 2009.