Azar Nafisi is a prominent Iranian author of the 20th and 21st centuries.

According to Iranian author Nabipour I., in medieval Persia, Avicenna ( 980-1037 ) provided a detailed account on diabetes mellitus in The Canon of Medicine ( c. 1025 ), " describing the abnormal appetite and the collapse of sexual functions and he documented the sweet taste of diabetic urine.

* 1989 – Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill the author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie.

* 1939 – Goli Taraqqi, Iranian author

* 1922 – Ebrahim Golestan, Iranian filmmaker, author and photographer

** Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini encourages Muslims to kill The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.

* the Iranian علامه طباطبائى or Allameh Tabatabaei, the author of numerous works including the twenty seven-volume Quranic commentary al-Mizan ( الميزان ),

According to author / journalist Mark Bowden, a pattern developed in President Carter's attempts to negotiate a release of the hostages: Carter would latch on to a deal proffered by a top Iranian official and grant minor but humiliating concessions, only to have it scotched at the last minute by Khomeini.

Former CIA operative and author Robert Baer describes it as the cover name used by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ( Pasdaran ).

Ata ' ollah Mohajerani (), ( born 1954 in Arak, Iran ), is an Iranian historian, politician, journalist, and author.

Allameh Ali Akbar Dehkhodā (; 1879 – March 9, 1956 ) was a prominent Iranian linguist, and author of the most extensive dictionary of the Persian language ever published.

Also Samad Behrangi, an Iranian author of children books, drowned in the River Aras.

Horr was a book by the Iranian author Ali Shariati about the historic Battle of Karbala in which Hussein, the grandson of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, was killed by Yazid ( 6th Sunni Caliph ).

Azar Nafisi, a notable Iranian academic and author, has referred to her influence, saying that " the first woman to unveil and to question both political and religious orthodoxy was a woman named Táhirih who lived in early 1800s ... And we carry this tradition.

The author concedes that the ruling elite of the Bulgars was Turkic-speaking as evidenced by the inscriptions etc., but stipulates that the bulk of the population was Iranian.

Other notable supporters include: Ata ' ollah Mohajerani, historian, politician, journalist, and author and former culture minister during Khatami's presidency ; Mohammad-Ali Abtahi, President Khatami's chief of staff, then his Vice President for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, and finally his advisor ; Mohammad-Ali Najafi, Iranian politician and university professor and former minister of education ; Emadeddin Baghi, the founder and head of the Committee for the Defense of Prisoners ' Rights and the Society of Right to Life Guardians, and winner of the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders ; Abdolkarim Soroush, philosopher and professor.

Red Shi ' sm vs. Black Shi ' ism is an essay written by the Iranian author Ali Shariati which discusses his ideas on the perceived dual aspects of the Shi ' a religion throughout history.

Contemporary Iranian literature is influenced by classical Persian poetry, but also reflects the particularities of modern day Iran, through writers such as Houshang Moradi-Kermani, the most translated modern Iranian author, and poet Ahmad Shamlou.

Nasrin Alavi, author of we are Iran brings the statistics of www. damasanj. com, a website which works out which stories are msot talked about in the Iranian blogosphere, which found that Ebadi dominated the top ten Rankings. 8 Most were congratulatory, and sought to provide bios and facts on the nature of Ebadi's work, which the traditional press had failed to print.

" As for Iraq, the author points out seven enormous errors on the part of American foreign policy: the failure to comprehend that Ahmed Chalabi was actually an Iranian agent: relying on Chalabi's misleading evidence pertaining to Iraq's WMDs: not being aware of how well organized the Shiites in Iraq had been-thanks to the Iranians: the failure to understand that Saddam Hussein had a war plan following the fall of Baghdad: failing to understand that the war in Iraq would not end with the fall of Baghdad: not admitting for several months after the war that there was an organized resistance in Iraq: not having sufficient troops the U. S. Army could deploy.

* Bahman Maghsoudlou, author of “ Iranian Cinema ”, published in 1987 by New York University ’ s Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Farzaneh Aghaeipour () is an Iranian playwright, author, and activist.

Hossein Mohyeddin Elahi Ghomshei () better known as Elahi Ghomshei, is an Iranian scholar, author and lecturer on literature, art and mysticism.

Some of those first pictures were taken by Iranian photographer Kaveh Golestan.

In Berlin he established the Komiteh-ye Iran ( Committee of Iran ), and with other prominent Iranian intellectuals, published the influential periodical Kaveh ( 1916 – 1922 ), which was distributed in Europe and Iran.

Kaveh was a political and literary journal which greatly contributed to creation of Iranian consciousness and national identity.

Kāveh the blacksmith ( Kāveh Āhangar, ) known as The Blacksmith of Isfahan or Kaveh of Isfahan, is a mythical figure in Iranian mythology who leads a popular uprising against a ruthless foreign ruler, Zahhāk.

Kaveh was, according to ancient legends, a blacksmith from Isfahan, Central Iran, who launched a national uprising against the evil foreign tyrant Zahak, expelled the foreigners and restored the pure race of the Iranian Fereydun and achieved independence for Iran.

The latter meaning is an identification with an Iranian legend in which the Derafš-e Kāvīān was the standard of a mythological blacksmith-turned-hero named Kaveh ( Modern Persian: Kāveh ), who led a popular uprising against the foreign demon-like ruler Dahāg ( Modern Persian: Zahhāk ).

He is the father of Iranian photojournalist Kaveh Golestan, and Lili Golestan, translator and owner and artistic director of the Golestan Gallery in Tehran, Iran.

However, the Iranian Army was focused on internal security operations, rather than, Farrokh says ' rather than fighting well-led and equipped Soviet and Western armies.

There is very little information available regarding Iran's use of its 79 F-14A Tomcats ( delivered prior to 1979 ) in most western outlets ; the exception being a book released by Osprey Publishing titled " Iranian F-14 Tomcats in Combat " by Tom Cooper and Farzad Bishop.

While in the 1940s Khomeini accepted the idea of a limited monarchy under the Iranian Constitution of 1906 – 1907 — as evidenced by his book Kashf al-Asrar – by the 1970s he rejected the idea.

However, a major inconsistency is that Domingo " Ding " Chavez is expressly stated to be 31 years old in this book, and also that he was in fifth grade during the Iranian Hostage Crisis of 1979.

The names of Iranian tribes including those of the Turanians that appear in Avesta have been studied by Professor Mayrhofer in his comprehensive book on Avesta personal name etymologies: Iranisches Personennamenbuch, I: Die altiranischen Namen.

According to a book entitled The Religion of the Iranian Peoples, " No one who has studied the Zoroastrian doctrine of the Saoshyants or the coming saviour-prophets can fail to see their resemblance to the future Maitreya.

She has published a book chapter and several papers on the Iranian women ’ s movement.

The great contemporary Iranian scholar, Said Nafisi, has a book about Rudaki called Biography, Environment and Time of Rudaki.

The journalist Robert Dreyfuss in his book Hostage to Khomeini described how the Muslim Student Association is just a front organization for the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization. He also describes how Ibrahim Yazdi, the founder of the Iranian branch of the Muslim Student Association became one of the key supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini and served in the early government of the Islamic republic. Robert Dreyfuss discusses how the Muslim Student Association has funnelled money to various Islamic terrorist organizations.

The Iranian musician and mystic, Nur Ali Elahi, was a high-ranking member of Ahl-e Haqq and published a book titled Burhan al-Haqq, one of the major and most reliable sources on the subject.

Like the Scythians whom Herodotus describes in book four of his History ( Saka is an Iranian word equivalent to the Greek Scythos, and many scholars refer to them together as Saka-Scythian ), Sakas were Iranian-speaking horse nomads who deployed chariots in battle, sacrificed horses, and buried their dead in barrows or mound tombs called kurgans.

Among the books he criticizes, Foss notes that the book written in Turkey by Cemal Anadol and titled 1982: the Armenian file in the light of history by Cemal Anadol claims the Iranian Scythians and Parthians as Turks.

Besides being one of the most celebrated examples of Persian poetry, this book relies on a clever word play between the words Simorgh – a mysterious bird in Iranian mythology which is a symbol often found in sufi literature, and similar to the phoenix bird – and " si morgh " – meaning " thirty birds " in Persian.

The plot of Larry Collins ' book The Road to Armageddon revolved heavily around American-made krytrons Iranian mullahs wanted for three Russian nuclear artillery shells they had hoped to upgrade to full nuclear weapons.

Former Iranian President Bani-Sadr said in his 1991 book My Turn to Speak that he had " proof of contacts between Khomeini and the supporters of Ronald Reagan as early as the spring of 1980 .... Rafsanjani, Beheshti, and Ahmed Khomeini Ayatollah's son played key roles.

In his book Huquq-e Asasi Ya ' ni Adab-e Mashrutiyat, published in Tehran in 1907, he articulated, in an Iranian context, the liberal concept of separation of powers between the executive and judiciary, which remains a key concepts of Iranian liberalism.

On October 27, 2004, Harris published a book that drew on rare interviews with American, Iranian, and European participants in the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, titled The Crisis: The President, the Prophet, and the Shah — 1979 and the Coming of Militant Islam.

Iranian historian and geographer of the 14th century Hamdollah Mostowfi in his book Nuzhat al-kulub ( hearts delight ), believed that Sassanid Iranian military commander was the founder of Nakhchivan, who lived in the end of 6th century.

Discussing Iran ’ s shattered economy, Millspaugh ’ s book sympathetically portrayed Iran and Iranians, but heaped criticism on the Iranian bureaucracy.

Hamdollah Mostowfi, the Iranian traveler and historian, in his book claims that Zanjan was built by Ardashir I, the first king of the Sassanid Empire and named as " Shahin ".

In his book Tarikh Gozideh, he describes 8 poets from Azerbaijan, calling them " Ahl-ol She ' r Men-al-Ajam " ( Iranian poets ), all Persian by tongue.