Iran. Part I (1880-1950) Prince Leopold (1853–1884), Duke of Albany, youngest son of Queen Victoria, in a carriage with Nasser-Al-Din, the Shah of Persia (left). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Circa 1880 Nasiruddin, Shah of Persia (Iran) in regal attire, with his scimitar. (Photo by W. & D. Downey/Getty Images). Circa 1880 British residents on horseback outside the British Post Office and Residency in the port of Bushire, Iran. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Circa 1894 View of the port of Bushire, Iran, from the British Residency, showing the British flagstaff and tennis courts. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Circa 1894 Facade of the Royal Palace in Isfahan, Iran. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Circa 1894 Muzaffer Uddin (1853–1907) the Shah of Persia. (Photo by W & D Downey/Getty Images) Crown Prince Valiaha of Persia who when older became the Shah of Iran is viewed with a group of officials after he officially opened a new military school in Tehran. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 1901 Mohammed Ali, Shah of Persia (1872–1925), who reigned from 1907 to 1909. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Circa 1907 An Anglo-Iranian Oil Company oil well in Iran, 1909. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Laying the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company pipeline between Masjid-i-Suleiman and Abadan in Iran, circa 1910. The pipeline was completed in 1911. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) From left to right: Messrs. Gunning, Thornton, Wood and Garden relaxing in Bustine, Persia. Mr. Wood is smoking a hookah pipe. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Circa 1910 The city of Shiraz in Iran, capital of Fars province, circa 1910. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) A criminal is publicly whipped in the street in Persia. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images). Circa 1910 Shah of Persia, Reza Shah Pahlavi (1877–1944) in military uniform. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images). 1910 Soldiers from Tehran, or Teheran, Persia, with a large machine gun. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). Circa 1911 The Shah of Persia (1898–1930) and Prince Albert stand outside the Guildhall after luncheon with the Mayor and Corporation of London. Left to right: The Lord Mayor, the Shah of Persia, Prince Albert (later George VI), and Lord Curzon. The Shah ruled from 1909 to 1925, when he was deposed by a constituent assembly which elected Reza Pahlavi to replace him. (Photo by Brooke/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). November 1919 The Palace of the Shah at Isfahan (Esfahan) in Iran, circa 1930. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) An Iranian soldier guards two German tourists near the Iranian-Turkish border during World War II. Since the British occupation of Iran, all Axis nationals are being expelled from the country. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1941 A street scene in an Iranian city. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1948 The leader of the Iranian Moslems Doctor Hamed in his office in Tehran. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1948 Iran. Part II (1950–1955) Two men perform the customary handwashing ceremony at a traditional Muslim wedding in the Mazanderan province of Iran. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1950 A peasant woman roasts a joint of meat in the Muslim manner, in the Mazanderan province of northern Iran. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1950 A woman taking off her shoes and leaving them with a pile of others at the entrance to the former Shah of Persia's Mausoleum which is guarded by soldiers. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1950 The exterior of Tehran's Theatre Saadi where a group of people study a billboard. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1950 Iranian peasants making rugs by kneading pieces of wool together after steaming them under pressure. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1950 A young Iranian boy learning how to write on a blackboard. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1950 The central square of Hamadan where veiled women gather together. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 1950 A deserter from the army being escorted by two members of the military police. Desertions are frequent in Iran where the population is not accustomed to organised militarism. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1952 A young mother and child from the Mazanderan province in northern Iran near the Caspian Sea and the Russian border. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1952 A street stall in Teheran selling bowls of steaming soup. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1952 Standing on a rooftop a muezzin is calling the faithful to prayer. Behind him rises a minaret. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1952 Shepherds from the north wear their traditional heavy woollen mantles as they stand ready to shear sheep with sycthe-like shears. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1952 Third class rail travellers on the train through the Luristan region, Iran. A man on the left is reading a magazine with an anti-Soviet cartoon depicting red Russia about to sever China's head with its symbolic sickle as the world protests in vain. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1952 Official Iranian government newspapers lead with a cover denouncing the encroachment of Russia's influence in Iran. In this newspaper a red-starred hand is shown reaching over the northern border mountains of Iran into the mosques of the nation. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). 1952 Shielding themselves from the far-reaching heat of a burning oil well, two Iranian National Oil Company workers rush across the fields of the Iranian countryside. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1954 An Iranian oil worker in an arid landscape, an oil tank in the distance, sits enjoying the labourer's staple diet of bread and tea. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1954 A man using a sharp spade to mix straw with clay-like mud to build building blocks for houses in Iran. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955 An Iranian smokes a Persian hookah or water pipe on the pavement in Isafahan. The pipe is hired by a specialist merchant for single use. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955 Oil drilling taking place in Iran. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955 An Iranian man finishing his cup of tea from the saucer. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955 A woman reading from the Koran during her prayers which she makes five times a day. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955 A railway engineer resting for a cigarette at Zagheh in the Luristan mountains of West Central Persia. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955 A Muslim man trims his beard at a self service barber shop at Aga Uhari, Iran. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955 Musicians herald the coming of bridal guests during a wedding ceremony in the Mananderen province near the Caspian Sea. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955 An Iranian soldier on sentry duty at his post near the Russian border at Babol-Sar, Iran. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955 Iranian women wait outside whilst the men meet in a teashop in Mashad, Iran. (Photo by Richard Harrington/Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955 A well is dug in Yazd, Iran, using a wooden windlass and leather bag. Many of the methods and construction techniques used in Iran have not changed in a thousand years. (Photo by Richard Harrington/Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955 A Persian soldier guarding an oil production site belonging to the Iranian oil company at Abadan on the northern tip of the Persian Gulf. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955 The Melli bank which is the centre of foreign commerce in Teheran, Persia. The architecture is modern though the relief figures on the front are of ancient Persians. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955 Iran. Part III (1955–1980) A railway bridge spanning a ravine uner construction to form part fo the Trans-Iranian railway. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1956 A newly-wed couple in Iran. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1960 Kurdistani women at a demonstration in Iran, near the Russian frontier, demanding Features/Getty Images). 25th January 1961 Three members of the Armenian Church in Isfahan, Iran dressed in their traditional dancing clothes. Pipes, animal teeth and large pins all make up their costume. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images). February 1961 Folk dancers from Northern Iran during a performance in Teheran. Hundreds of beads and metal discs all make up their costumes. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images). February 1961 A view of a village consisting of mud buildings near Isfahan in Iran. At the crossroads a group of women can be seen winding cotton onto reels and in the distance a man guides two heavily-laden donkeys. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images). February 1962 View of crowds in front of the Iran Pavillion at the 1967 World's Fair in Montreal, Canada, 1967. (Photo by Harvey Meston/Getty Images) Kurdish troops on the Rawanuduz border, following the decision of its only ally Iran, to withdraw support for the Kurds in their fight for autonomy with Iraq. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). Circa 1970 A village of tents in Persepolis, where various heads of state will be housed during the celebration of the 2,500th anniversary of the Persian monarchy, 13th October 1971. (Photo by Ian Tyas/Keystone/Getty Images) Fleeing Kurdish tribesman who hope to reach the Iraqi borders and cross into Iran before the cease fire ends on the 1st April. They are gathering in a village near a pass leading to the border. (Photo by John Stathatos/Getty Images). 1974 A gun battle in Khorramshahr, in southwestern Iran, during the Iranian Revolution, 1979. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Ayatollah Mahmoud Talaghani, one of the most militant of Iran's religious leaders, jailed for 40 years. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). January 1979 Thousands of supporters calling for the return of their religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini in the streets of Tehran. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1st January 1979 Thousands of the Ayatollah Khomeini's supporters on the streets of Tehran calling for the religious leader's return. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). January 1979 Iranian leader, Ayatollah Imam Rouhollah Khomeini. (Photo by Asadollah Chahriari/Keystone/Getty Images). January 1979 Armed women on guard and participating in Khordad in one of the main squares in Tehran at the beginning of the Iranian Revolution. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1979 The Iranian Islamic Republic Army demonstrates in solidarity with people in the street during the Iranian revolution. They are carrying posters of the Ayatollah Khomeini, the Iranian religious and political leader. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1979 Pressmen surround Iranian political and religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini after the announcement that the Shah has left Iran. The Ayatollah plans to return to Iran after 15 years of exile in Paris. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1979 A television crew films PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat (centre, left) with Iranian revolutionaries at a cemetery in Tehran, February 1979. Arafat was the first foreign dignitary to visit the post-revolutionary Iran of Ayatollah Khomeini. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) A poster of the Iranian Muslim leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1900–1989) in the window of Iran Air in Paris, France. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1st February 1979 Iranian demonstrators in the streets of Tehran during the revolt against the Shah. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 2nd February 1979 The new ruler of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini listens to the visiting Foreign Minister of Turkey Gunduz Okcun during a meeting at his residnce at Kum, Iran. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1st June 1979 A demonstration in Tehran. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1980 Source: AvaxNews
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