Similarly, Iraj, which is also a popular name, is the brother of Turaj in the Shahnameh.

* Iraj Mirza, Persian folk poet, also known as Jalaal-al-mamalek.

Iraj Mirza was also a political activist. Iraj Mirza's tombstone in Darband, Shemiran, Tehran.

In 1905, when AKA was relocated and moved to Tehran, Iraj also accompanied him and soon became involved in the Iranian or Persian Constitutional Revolution.

Iraj is considered as one of the famous contemporary poets of Iran and also as the first Iranian master of colloquial poetry.

In addition to those colloquial poems, Iraj also composed elegies ( in Persian: Soognameh or Marssieh ) to praise Mozzafar-al-Din Shah, Hassan Ali Khan Garroosy ( also known as Amir Nezam Garroosy, the governor of East Azarbaijan and Kermanshah during Qajar era ), and many other Qajar historical personalities.

Among many poems that Iraj composed, his well-known poems include Satan ( in Persian: Ebleess ), Mother ( in Persian: Maadar ), A Letter to a Poet Aref Ghazvini ( in Persian: Arefnameh ), Woman's Picture ( in Persian: Tassvir-e-Zan ), Story of the Veil or Hijab ( in Persian: hejab ) and the Story of Zohreh and Manouchehr ( in Persian: Daastan-e-Zohreh-o-Manouchehr ), which is based on William Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis.

At this time Iraj learned French and became very much familiar with Russian too.

Though some literatures indicate that Iraj was schooled privately, there are reliable evidences that he studied at a branch of the House of Sciences and Techniques ( in Persian: Darolfonoon ) in Tabriz.

At 16, Iraj got married and at 19 he lost both his father and wife.

Iraj was known to believe that the status of Iranian women at his time was devastatingly reminiscent of the Dark Ages.

According to Middle Persian and Islamic sources, Afrasiab was a descendant of Tūr ( Avestan: Tūriya -), one of the three sons of the Iranian mythical King Fereydun ( the other two sons being Salm and Iraj ).

At 22, when Mozaffar al-Din Mirza was succeeded to the throne in 1896 and became Mozaffar al-Din Shah ; Iraj was titled as the Head of Poets ( in Persian: Sadrol-Shaaeryn or Sadrol-Show-Araa ).

Two years later, Iraj returned to Tehran where he started to work as a staff member of the Office of Official Compositions ( in Persian: Daarol-en-Shaa ).

During Qajar era, Iraj was influenced by the Iranian or Persian Constitutional Revolution ( 1906 – 1911 ) and by the changing circumstances in the country.

Although Iraj was one of the pioneers of the innovative movement in the Persian Poetry, he never thought of abandoning the rules of the classic poetry.

Or the mode of love to this fragment by a recent poet: `` Know ye, fair folk who dwell on earth Or shall hereafter come to birth, That here, with dust upon his eyes, Iraj, the sweet-tongued singer, lies.

A number of Iranian scholars have published their works on the cultural and social issues of Balochistan such as Iraj Afshar Sistani, Azim Shahbukhsh, Ghasem Siasar, Taj Mohammad Berisiq, Ahmed Raza Taheri, Mohammad Hassan Hossinbor, and Abdolvodod Sepahi.

* Bashiri, Iraj, Bashiri Working Papers on Central Asia and Iran, 2000.

* A Brief Note on the Life of Mehdi Akhavan Sales by Iraj Bashiri

At 52, Iraj moved back to Tehran where he died on March 14, 1926.

Here Iraj tells the story based on the Greek myth of Venus and Adonis.

Iraj Mottahedeh ( Anglican priest in Esfahan ), Dimitri Bellos ( diocesan officer ), the Rev.

Stories of Tahmuras, Jamshid, Zahhāk, Kawa or Kaveh, Fereydūn and his three sons Salm, Tur, and Iraj, and his grandson Manuchehr are related in this section.

* Iraj Bashiri, Characters of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, Iran Chamber Society, 2003.

* Zahir o-dowleh cemetery, housing the tombs of art and cultural figures such as Iraj Mirza, Mohammad Taghi Bahar, Forough Farrokhzad, Abolhasan Saba, Ruhollah Khaleghi, and Darvish-khan are buried.

However, the reliability of such work has been questioned, and in the words of Hāfez scholar Iraj Bashiri .... " there remains little hope from there ( i. e.: Iran ) for an authenticated diwan ".

A biography by Professor Iraj Bashiri, University of Minnesota.

Iraj & Ranidu, Ranga Dasanayaka, Rukantha Gunathilaka and Ekvin Peiris, more or less followed the same footpath.

According to an analysis by Iraj Bashiri of Chingiz Aitmatov's Jamila, levirate marriage was practiced in Kyrgyzstan during the Cold War.

The founding declaration of the party has four signatures: Mansoor Hekmat, Koorosh Modarresi, Reza Moghadam and Iraj Azarin.

* Workers Socialist Unity led by Reza Moghaddam and Iraj Azarin.

This illustration shows the witch Anqarut in the guise of a beautiful young woman, who hopes to seduce the handsome king Malik Iraj, whom she has captured and tied to a tree.

* Rudaki, Abu Abd Allah, a biography by Professor Iraj Bashiri, University of Minnesota.

* Al-i Ahmad, Jalal A biography by Iraj Bashiri, University of Minnesota.

* Iraj Bashiri, Hedayat's Ivory Tower: Structural Analysis of The Blind Owl, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1975.

* Iraj Bashiri, The Fiction of Sadeq Hedayat, ‎‎ 1984.

* Sadeq Hedayat's Life by Iraj Bashiri.

* Sadeq Hedayat's Corner, further articles and English translations by Iraj Bashiri.

Costello ( 1957 ), by Henry D. G. Law, and by Iraj Bashiri ( 1974 ).

A biography by Professor Iraj Bashiri, University of Minnesota.