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In 1967, Iran adopted a set of progressive family laws, the Family Protection Act, which granted women family rights; these were expanded in the Family Protection Law of 1975. The act was annulled in 1979 after the Islamic Revolution when Sharia law was re-introduced, but it stands out for having been ahead of its time, particularly in a Muslim ...
From 1941 to 1979, Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah. On February 11, 1979, the Islamic Revolution swept the country.
1969 in Iran; F. List of Iranian films of the 1960s; I. Imperial State of Iran; P. Pahlavi Iran
Soraya in childhood with her mother, c. 1935 Soraya was the elder child and only daughter of Khalil Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1901–1983), [1] a Bakhtiari nobleman and Iranian ambassador to West Germany in the 1950s, and his Russian-born German wife Eva Karl (1906–1994).
By AMIR VAHDAT and ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press ROYAN, Iran (AP) -- Her son's killer stood on a chair on the gallows, his hands shackled, the noose around his neck. Hundreds crowded outside the ...
Farah with Iranian Boy Scouts in Paris, (c. 1956). Farah Diba was born on 14 October 1938 in Tehran to an upper-class family. [3] [4] [5] She was the only child of Captain Sohrab Diba (1899–1948) and his wife, Farideh Ghotbi (1920–2000).
Ghavam was the Assistant Military Attaché for Iran in 1941 in Washington, DC, and the eldest son of Mirza Ibrahim Khan Ghavam, Qavam ul-Mulk. She had one son from her first marriage, Prince (Vala Gohar) Shahram Pahlavi-Nia (born 18 April 1940, Tehran). In 1966 he married 16-year-old Niloufar Afshar, and the couple had one son, Cyrus, in 1969.
The following lists events that happened during 1960 in the Imperial State of Iran. Incumbents. Shah: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi;