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The Fifty-Three were a group of 53 Iranians arrested for involvement in communist political activities in 1937 [1] and brought to trial in November 1938 in the most sensational of the political trials held during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi. [2] Some, such as Taqi Arani, died in jail - the rest were released in 1941. [3] The fifty-five were:
The Reuter concession (Persian: امتیازنامه رویتر) was a contract signed in 1872 between Paul Reuter, a German-born British banker, businessman, and founder of Reuters, and Naser al-Din Shah, Qajar king of Persia.
The video shows an ancient Jewish scroll discovered in 2017. Fact Check: The Pentagon has recently confirmed that there are 2,000 U.S. troops deployed in Syria, but some units are reportedly ...
1938 in Iran (1 C, 1 P) ... Pages in category "1930s in Iran" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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In 1901, local Iranian sovereigns had sold an oil concession covering much of the country's southwest, to William Knox D'Arcy, by the time oil was discovered in commercial quantities in May 1908, D'Arcy was nearly bankrupt and sold his rights to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1909. In the decades that followed he British profited immensely ...
The Baghdad Battery is the name given to a set of three artifacts which were found together: a ceramic pot, a tube of copper, and a rod of iron. It was discovered in present-day Khujut Rabu , Iraq in 1936, close to the ancient city of Ctesiphon , the capital of the Parthian (150 BC – 223 AD) and Sasanian (224–650 AD) empires, and it is ...
The Trans-Iranian Railway in 1938. After the substantial interruption of World War I, the project for constructing a standard-gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) railway across Iran was initiated by Reza Shah Pahlavi as part of numerous reforms contributing to the drastic modernization of Iran that occurred over the two decades between World War I and World War II.