Tehrān People

Neda Salehi Agha-Soltan (Persian: ندا صالحی آقا سلطان - Nedā Sālehi Āġā Soltān; 1982 – June 20, 2009) is an Iranian woman whose fatal shooting on 20 June 2009 provided a rallying cry for Iranians protesting that country's 2009 presidential...

Micheline Anne-Marie Calmy-Rey (born July 8, 1945) is a Swiss politician, member of the Swiss Federal Council since 2002. She is head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (the Swiss foreign minister) and was President of the Confederation in...

Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini (Persian:روح الله موسوی خمینی, pronounced [ruːhollɑːhe muːsæviːje xomejniː] ( listen))[add stress] (24 September 1902 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian religious leader and politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which...

Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga (born 14 July 1942 in Madrid, Spain) was the High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Secretary-General of both the Council of the European Union (EU) and the Western European Union...

Seyed Mohammad Khātamī (Persian: سید محمد خاتمی, pronounced [sejjed mohæmmæde xɒːtæmiː])[add stress] (born October 14, 1943, in Ardakan, Yazd Province) is an Iranian scholar and politician. He served as the fifth President of Iran from August 2, 1997 to August...

Dr. Mohamed Mostafa ElBaradei (Arabic: محمد البرادعي‎, transliteration: Muḥammad al-Barādaʿī) (born June 17, 1942, in Cairo, Egypt) is the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an inter-governmental organization under the auspices of the...

Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh (Persian: میرحسین موسوی خامنه, Mīr-Hoseyn Mūsavī Khāmené; born 2 March 1942) is an Iranian reformist politician, painter and architect who served as the seventynine and last Prime Minister of Iran from 1981 to 1989. Mousavi is currently...

Mohammad Ali Hosseini (In Persian: محمد علی حسینی) is the vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran. He is the current spokesman of the Ministry and Vice Minister of parliamentary affairs.

Ali Asghar Soltanieh (Persian: علی اصغر سلطانیه) is Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Clotilde Reiss (born July 31, 1985) is a French scholar, who was detained in Iran on July 1, 2009. She holds master's degree from Sciences-Po Lille. She was teaching in Isfahan and writing a thesis about teaching history and geography...