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    Posted: 02-Mar-2006 at 18:16

Lets list some of our greatest scientists, scholars, poets, mathmaticians, historians, leaders, etc... you get the idea.

In this way, I, as well as others, can learn more about these great men and women. 

Well, I'll start this off:

Khwarizmi (mathmaticians--Created algebra)

Ibn Sina/Avicenna (Philosopher/Physician--Father of modern medicine)

Rumi (Poet--Known world wide)

Ferdowsi (Poet/Writer--Saved the Persian Language)

Ahmad Ibn Rustah (Geographer--One of the greatest Muslim as well as Iranian geographers)

List of Pre Modern Age Iranian scientists and scholars (doesn't include poets, physicians, etc...):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iranian_scientists

 



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These people are not Iranians, they are American, but I found this and thought its too good not to post here

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Howard Baskerville, an Iranian hero from America.
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The US flag flies over The US Consulate near Arg e Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran, during Iran's Constitutionalist Revolution. The Arg was attacked and bombed by 4000 Russian troops in December of 1911. The Persians held out for four days. While the US consulate was in the line of fire, some Americans like Howard Baskerville, took to arms, helping the people of Iran.
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The US flag flies over The US Consulate near Arg e Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran, during Iran's Constitutionalist Revolution. The Arg was attacked and bombed by 4000 Russian troops in December of 1911. The Persians held out for four days. While the US consulate was in the line of fire, some Americans like Howard Baskerville, took to arms, helping the people of Iran.

Howard Baskerville (April 10, 1885 - April 19, 1909) was an American teacher in the Presbyterian mission school in Tabriz, Iran.

In 1908, during the Constitutional Revolution of Iran, he decided to join the Constitutionalists and fight against the Qajar despot King Mohammad Ali Shah. He was shot while leading a group of student soldiers to break the Siege of Tabriz.

The affection that many Iranians have for America perhaps may have roots in Tabriz, where this Nebraskan missionary was killed. Baskerville was a teacher in the American School, one of many such institutions created by the American missionaries who had worked in the city since the mid-19th century. He arrived in 1908, fresh out of Princeton University and, swept up in the revolutionary mood in Iran, fought a royalist blockade that was starving the city. On April 19, 1909, he led a contingent of 150 nationalist fighters into battle against the royalist forces. A single bullet tore through his heart, killing him instantly nine days after his 24th birthday.

Many Iranian nationalists still revere Baskerville as an exemplar of an America that they saw as a welcome ally and a useful third force that might break the power of London and Moscow in Tehran.

Iranians still pay tribute to Baskerville and consider him a martyr. He is buried in Tabriz, Iran.

A sculpture of him is today located in the Tabriz constitution House as a martyr.

Arthur Upham Pope (1881-1969), was an archaeologist and historian of Persian art. Born in Phoenix, Rhode Island, Pope taught at Amherst College and the University of California. He married fellow Persian art historian, Phyllis Ackerman, in 1920. In 1923, Pope was appointed director of the San Francisco Museum. Two years later, he went to Iran to complete research and serve as an art advisor to the Iranian government. He traveled around the world giving lectures and curating exhibitions of Persian art. In 1930, he edited the Survey of Persian Art. In 1934 he hired the budding Islamicist Richard Ettinghausen. The International Association of Iranian Art elected him president in 1960.

Arthur Upham Pope and his wife Phyllis Ackerman were pioneers in the study of the arts of Asia, with a paramount dedication to Persian art, history, heritage and culture, and its interrelations. Their efforts led to the establishment in 1925 of the American Institute for Persian Art and Archaeology, which later became the Asia Institute, in New York City and their unique programs of research, publications, exhibitions and educational instruction continued at the Institute and around the world until their retirement. Pope is often credited with being responsible for helping revive the spirit of Iran's glorious past in the Pahlavi era. General Reza Khan is particularly said to have been moved by Pope's Persian nationalist speech in 1925.[1](p.41-42)

In 1964, during a state visit to Iran, Professor Pope and Dr. Ackerman were formally invited to move The Asia Institute in Shiraz as an independent research center of publication and study, which would be housed in the Narenjestan, the beautiful compound of the Ghavam ol-Molk Shirazi. They accepted this generous offer and following months of planning, packing and organization, they returned permanently to Iran in 1966.

Professor Pope and Dr. Ackerman were to spend their final days in Iran and upon their death, they were provided with a magnificent mausoleum built in Professor Pope Park on the banks of the Zayandeh-Rud river in their beloved city of Isfahan. This unique tribute by Iran for two of America's pioneer scholars of Persian studies, and their remarkable achievements during lives dedicated to art, culture, beauty and heritage, is best told in the biography of Professor Pope and Dr. Ackerman, edited by Nol Siver and Jay & Sumi Gluck.

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Arthur Millspaugh, PhD, was a former adviser at the U.S. State Departments Office of the Foreign Trade, who was hired to re-organize the Finance Ministry of Iran from 1942-1945 and 1922-1927.

With his help, Iran became independent of foreign loans to maintain its economy. Back then (before World War 2), the Iranian public viewed the United States as a liberator from British and Russian dominance, as well as the country which would make Iran prosperous and rich. Up until the Cold War, Millspaugh tried, unsuccessfully, to influence the US State Department's policies toward Iran.

As Administrator-General of Finances of Iran, he brought positive results in balancing the Iranian budget, further strengthening the American case in Iranian government circles. Iranian government officials were grateful to Millspaugh by who appreciable reduction was effected in the monthly deficit of the Iranian Government account.

He first came to Iran in 1922, and worked in Tehran for 4 years, and again returned in 1942 by the invitation of Iran's 13th Majles.

Despite being given temporary legislative authority, Millspaugh's reforms were unable to rejuvenate the Iranian economy. Reza Shah terminated the authority on grounds of Millspaughs repeated noncompliance with the Shahs requests for increased military expenditure.

Millspaugh managed to implement a number of reforms, including a new taxation law that hit the poor hard but financed Reza Shahs Trans-Iranian Railway project, which got underway in 1927. The missions accomplishments were repeatedly hampered by internal political rivalries in Iran and a wide-spread system of patronage and graft among many leading Iranian politicians.

Fancying himself the successor to Morgan Shusters unfulfilled legacy of restructuring Irans economy, in 1925 Millspaugh published a book on his assignment in Iran, "The American Task in Persia".

Discussing Irans shattered economy, Millspaughs book sympathetically portrayed Iran and Iranians, but heaped criticism on the Iranian bureaucracy. "The American task in Persia" was highly influential in shaping American political opinion towards Iran. Commentaries on Iran appearing in American foreign policy journals, such as Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy Reports, or in leading journals such as Time magazine, frequently relied on Millspaughs accounts as a principal source.

In 1942 Millspaugh headed another financial mission, this time clearly connected with the US State Department. His mission was hampered again by internal political rivalries in Iran, the entrenched vested interests of the Iranian political elite (economic, military, political, and tribal), and frequent cabinet reshuffles in Tehran with seesawing political orientations (with 11 prime ministers between 1941 and 1946). The financial mission under Millspaughs supervision again became a source of irritation between Tehran and Washington and had to be terminated in 1945.

In 1946, his second book on Iran, Americans in Persia, was published by the policy think-tank Brookings Institution. Replete with clinical metaphors, and speaking from experience from his days working for the Shah's government, Millspaugh this time was more pessimistic and critical of Iranians, portraying them as incapable of self-government:

"Persia cannot be left to herself, even if the Russians were to keep their hands off politically. ...Persia has never yet proved its capacity for independent self-government." (p 243 of his second book)

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Firouz Naderi
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High School: Andisheh, Tehran, Iran
  
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University
  
M.S., Electrical Engineering Communications, University of Southern California
  
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering Image Coding, University of Southern California

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Dr. Naderi is the head of the Mars Exploration Program at JPL. The program consists of a chain of scientifically and technologically interrelated projects with one or more spacecraft launched to Mars every 26 months. In the summer of 2000, he helped to architect this program and has responsibility for its end-to-end implementation. During his tenure, three successful missions have orbited or landed on Mars. Dr. Naderi is also the Director for the Solar System Exploration Programs and chairs JPLs Strategic Management Council.

For the past decade he has been associated with NASAs search for life outside of the confines of Earth. (Prior to becoming Mars program manager, he spent four years as the program manager of the Origins Program -- NASAs ambitious technology-rich plan to search for evidence of life outside the Solar System.)

He joined JPL in September of 1979. His early work at JPL was on system design of large satellite-based systems for nationwide cellular phone coverage. Dr. Naderi went to NASA Headquarters for two years in the mid-80s to serve as the program manager for the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS), the front-runner of todays multi-beam space-switching commercial satellites. Upon his return to JPL, he became the project manager for the NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) Project, which aimed at space-based measurements of winds over the global oceans with application to weather forecasting. He was a cofounder of a startup company in the mid-80s and consultant to other startup companies in the same period.

Dr. Naderi was borne in Shiraz, Iran and moved to the U.S. forty years ago. His 25 years at JPL spans systems engineering, technology development, program and project management as applied to satellite communications systems, Earth remote sensing observatories, astrophysical observatories, and planetary systems. He is the recipient of NASAs Outstanding Leadership Medal.

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in the astronomy: we also have Mansouri family, They get 10,000,000$ or 1,000,000$ (not sure), prize to the best spaceship plan

in the web, I remember:
Peier Omidyar: Founder of Ebay

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As the individual responsible for Google's revenue generation efforts, Omid Kordestani is the tireless leader of an international sales effort that has brought Google to profitability in record time. Omid has more than a dozen years of high-technology consumer and enterprise experience, including key positions at Internet pioneer Netscape Communications. As vice president of Business Development and Sales, he grew Netscape's website revenue from an annual run-rate of $88 million to more than $200 million in 18 months.

Omid joined Netscape as director of OEM Sales, and during his four-year career at that company he was responsible for establishing major customer relationships with Citibank, AOL, Amazon, Intuit, Travelocity, Intel, @Home, eBay, and Excite. Prior to Netscape, he held positions in marketing, product management, and business development at The 3DO Company, Go Corporation, and Hewlett-Packard.

Omid received an MBA from Stanford University and a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from San Jose State University.




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lets not forget Cyrus Shahmiri for creating this site
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Kurdish pan Iranist!

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Mellat Iran (Persian ی, properly transliterated Hezb-e Mellat-e Aeran, " Party of the Iranian Nation") also known as Iran Nation Party (INP) is a pan-Iranist political party of Iran founded by Dariush Forouhar.

History

The group was founded by Dariush Forouhar in 1951, which he continued to lead up until his unsolved murder in 1998. Though sharing the same political foundation and similar ideologies, Mellat Iran differed greatly from the Pan-Iranist Party, which he had originally co-founded with Mohsen Pezeshkpour. Unlike the latter group, Mellat Iran was against the Shah and strongly supported the nationalist Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. Mellat Iran also operated from a grass roots foundation, and was active during and immediately after the Iranian Revolution. After the rise to power of Khomeini, Mellat Iran, the Pan-Iranist Party, and other nationalist groups such as the National Front and National Alliance were outlawed and their supporters ostracized and persecuted. Since Forouhar's assassination in November 1998, the party has been led by Khosrow Seif

Current legal status

The party is officially banned by the Iranian government, but tolerated. The former Foruhar residence has been a focal point for party members since his death, and is kept under surveillance. Persons attending meetings there are sometimes arrested and taken in for questioning. In 2003, Amnesty International issued a memo expressing that organization's concern for three men who "...reportedly were tortured while being held incommunicado."

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Dariush Forouhar (1928-1998) was the leader of the Hezb-e Mellat-e Iran (Nation of Iran Party), a pan-Iranist opposition party in Iran which he founded in 1951. He was born in Isfahan and had formerly been the Minister of Labor in the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979. He was one of the founding members of the original Pan-Iranist Party of Iran with Mohsen Pezeshkpour. During the Pahlavi era, he had been very active in the anti-Shah nationalist movement and was a strong supporter of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh.

In the midst of post-revolutionary tensions in Iranian Kurdistan in 1979, Forouhar was part of a delegation sent by Tehran to negotiate with Kurdish political and religious leaders. Although this delegation's recommendations were never implemented by the central government and Kurdish revolt was dealt with harshly, Forouhar's attempts to reach a peaceful settlement with Kurds earned him respect among Kurds.

He and his wife, Parvaneh Eskandari Forouhar, were assassinated in their home in 1998. The murders, which are believed to have been politically motivated, remain unsolved. There has been speculation from supporters of the Forouhars (as well as from critics of the Islamic Republic) that the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence was involved and ordered the killings [1] [2] [3] [4] [5].

They are survived by their son, Arash, and daughter, Parastou. Both are politically active and continue to raise awareness of the plight of political dissidents in Iran.

Ms. Shirin Ebadi, the lawyer of the Forouhars' relatives quoting Parastou says: "All evidences show that my father was preparing himself to go to prison, because at the time of his slaying, his shoes had no laces, he did not wear his wrist watch and had his wallet emptied of its contents and papers except for some money."

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My great great great grandfather, Hossein e Golzar Kermanshahi, at least the best western Pahlavan ever, poisoned by his adversary Akbar Khorassani the night before their fight in Tehran in front of Nasser ud din Shah Qajar.  he was poisoned after Akbar invited him for dinner before the fight, my grandfather was undefeated and feared, the poison deafened him only, the following day he beat Akbar Khorassani but did not hear the signal to stop teh fight so a guard hit him ont he back of the head with a mace and he died shortly after.

This picture is an artist's impression after he looked at the features of all the males in my family to whom he is paternal grandfather. His grave was uncovered in a site due for development (construction) by a labourer who recognised his name, before that his grave was unknown.  We built a big tomb fo him, his picture is on it.



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thats a sad story. you got any other pics of him?
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No, as I said that is the modern artist's impression of him based on his modern male descendants.  The Zur Khaneh where he trained is named after him, also a nearby tea house which is a memorial to Kermanshah's Pahlavans.

This is the Zur Khaneh:

Picture from inside Zur Khaneh



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Banisadr  iranian president 1980/81

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  Quote Behi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04-Mar-2006 at 12:36
Cool!!
Zagros we have another similarity,
my geat grandfather was so, I don't know about his father & before him.
He (Agha Mirza Hashem Akbarian or called A Miz HAshem ) was pahlavan,
& Still in Esfahan, you may find oldmans who can remeber him & in old Zorkhanes in Esfahan you my find his photo
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Banisadr  iranian president 1980/81


& Another Iranian president

moshe katsav, President of Israel
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Very cool!

To be called Pahlavan, a man must be very honourable and kind of heart, a Pahlavan cannot be a bully.  They are still highly respected and have their roots back to the days of Mitra in teh Parthian era, hence Pahlavan.  My dad was also a pahlavan, he used to be army lightweight champion, he still has the certificate and he helped the poor people of Kermanshah, my cousin told me when i was in Kermanshah, that f I went to the villages and simply said I was the son of my father they would be ready to fight for me  (they all have AK-47)  because of all of the good things he did for them.

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Banisadr  iranian president 1980/81


& Another Iranian president

moshe katsav, President of Israel



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i think Israel's president  is an Iranian Jew.

 

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i think Israel's president  is an Iranian Jew.

 


aahhh, i see, never heard before !! yes, he was born in iran ,i read at  wikipedia ,thanks.

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the israeli defense minister is also iranian. we would make natural allies one day.
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One of the greatest pahlevans!!!!!!!!!!!

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World Champion Takhti

holam Reza Takhti was born in 27 August 1930, in Tehran and raised in poor circumstances. He trained in a makeshift sports hall until he left Tehran to work as an oil worker. After being drafted into the army he was introduced to freestyle wrestling, He won his first Iranian championship in 1950, and became the first Iranian wrestler to win an international medal when he gained a silver medal in the World Championships at Helsinki in 1951., followed by silver at the Helsinki Olympics.

Takhti started as a middleweight wrestler. In the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and when he was only 22 years old, he managed to win the silver medal in the 79 kg weight category. 4 years later and in Melbourne, he went one better and along the other great Iranian wrestler, EmamAli Habibi, became the first Olympic gold winner for his country. This was achieved in the 87 kg weight category. He won gold in the 1959 Tehran World championships and later he participated in World Championships of Yokohama (Japan) and Toledo (Ohio, USA) and respectively won gold and silver medals.

As he was getting heavier, he decided to move up to the next weight, 97 kg, for the Tokyo Olympics in 1964. But this proved to be one competition too many for the great champion. He competed unsuccessfully at the Tokyo Olympics and 1966 World championships due to his being chosen for adverse political reasons. Although he had retired from competition, the government of the time attempted to discredit him in the eyes of the people with whom he was extremely popular, particularly from an anti-government stance. Though he lost in the last two competitions his popularity was not diminished.

His mysterious death in 07 January 1968 was "officially" listed as suicidal but the popular opinion was one of political assassination by government security service known as "SAVAK".

The late Gholamreza Takhti is the highest ranked Iranian wrestler in history of Iranian wrestling. With one gold (1956 Melbourne) and two silver medals (1952 Helsinki, 1960 Rome) in Olympic games, and two gold (1959 of Tehran, 1961 of Yokohama) and again two silver medals (1951 of Helsinky, 1962 of Toledo) in World Championships, the legendary Takhti is the most celebrated wrestler in Iranian wrestling.

 

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