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Jimmy Delshad, former mayor of Beverly Hills, California (2007–2008, 2010–2011), first Iranian-born mayor of an American city; Eugene Dooman, counselor at the United States Embassy in Tokyo during the period of critical negotiations between the U.S. and Japan before World War II
The Mountain Beverly Hills, formerly known as The Vineyard Beverly Hills, is a 157-acre (64 ha) undeveloped property in Beverly Hills, California reportedly worth $1 billion. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Princess Shams Pahlavi , the sister of Iran’s last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , bought it in the 1970s and intended to build the shah a $20 million palace ...
In June 1964, members of the ISAUS protested the Shah Pahlavi's visit to Beverly Hills and New York City. [10] [11] On April 28, 1968, an anti-war rally of 15,000 people was held at the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco and included the Black Panther Party, Muhammad Ali, Bobby Seale, Black Muslims, the Socialist Workers Party, and 30 members of the ISAUS.
In 2007 ballots for elections in Beverly Hills began to be printed in Persian. That year, Jimmy Delshad, a Persian Jew, became the mayor of Beverly Hills; he was the city's first mayor of Iranian descent and also the country's highest-ranking political office holder of Persian origins. [23]
Shah Abbas is the name of: Abbas I of Persia (1571–1629), Shah (ruler) of Iran, at apex of the Safavid dynasty; Abbas II of Persia (1633–1666), Shah (ruler) of ...
According to the US Census Bureau's 2010 American Community Survey, 26% of Beverly Hills' 34,000 residents are of Iranian origin. [129] On 21 March 2007, Jimmy Delshad, a Persian Jew who immigrated to the United States in 1958, became the Mayor of Beverly Hills. This election made Delshad one of the highest ranking elected Iranian-American ...
Shah Abbas, seeing the strengthening of Herat's fortress walls, was aware that the siege of the fortress could last for a very long time. Therefore, he was able to force the Uzbek army to leave the castle by using false retreat tactics. The Uzbek army that left the fortress was surrounded and defeated by the Safavid army. Din Mohammad, the ...
The Ottoman–Safavid War of 1616–1618 was a brief war between the Ottoman Empire and Safavid Iran.. After the Ottoman–Safavid war (1603–1612), the Ottomans and Safavids had signed the Treaty of Nasuh Pasha, in which their borders were changed back to the previous one under Selim I and Shah Ismail I.