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According to World Health Organization in 2014 the suicide rate of Iran was 5.3 in every 100,000 people. In that year, the rate of suicide based on gender was 3.6 for women and 7 for men. Seasonally, most suicides occurred in summer with the rate of 35.2% of all suicides; 13% higher than any other season. [6]
The mujahideen fought against Soviet and DRA troops during the Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989). Afghanistan's resistance movement originated in chaos and, at first, regional warlords waged virtually all of its fighting locally. As warfare became more sophisticated, outside support and regional coordination grew.
Committing suicide to draw attention to the Islamic Republic's behavior toward protesters. Mohammad Moradi (Persian: محمد مرادی; 1984 – 26 December 2022) was an Iranian student living in the city of Lyon, France, who threw himself into the Rhône River in protest against the widespread suppression of the 2022 uprising in Iran and ...
t. e. Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini[b] (17 May 1900 or 24 September 1902 [a] – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian Islamic revolutionary, politician and religious leader who served as the first Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the main leader of the Iranian Revolution, which ...
Death of Sarina Esmailzadeh. On 23 September 2022, Iranian teenager Sarina Esmailzadeh (Persian: سارینا اسماعیلزاده) died of severe beating on the head by security forces during the Mahsa Amini protests in Karaj, Alborz province, Iran, according to human rights organizations. [1][2] She was 16 years old. [3]
In 1976, the Shah's government angered pious Iranian Muslims by changing the first year of the Iranian solar calendar from the Islamic hijri to the ascension to the throne by Cyrus the Great. "Iran jumped overnight from the Muslim year 1355 to the royalist year 2535." [37]
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, [16] also known as the Persian Empire[16] or First Persian Empire[17] (/ əˈkiːmənɪd /; Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐏂, Xšāça, lit. 'The Empire' [18] or 'The Kingdom' [19]), was an Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC. Based in modern-day Iran, it was the ...
The Raad 85 (Thunder 85) (Also R'ad 85, Ra'ad 85, etc) is an Iranian loitering munition developed in the 2010s. [1] It was designed by the Iranian Army's Research and Self-sufficiency Jihad Organization in cooperation with Qods Aviation [2] for the Iranian Army Ground Force. It is an unmanned "suicide drone" that is remotely guided to its ...