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Cases
13
Years
530 BCE to 1979
Region
Middle East
Main subjects
Islamic and Persian empires, Business dynasties, Oil and natural resources, Secret societies and orders
Families
Pahlavi dynasty
Updated
30 October 2026
Reza Pahlavi: رضا پهلوی در گفتگو با سیامک دهقانپور از صدای آمریکا، تیر ۱۴۰۳ 02 (cropped)1944 · Johannesburg, South Africa; Cairo, Egypt; Rey (Tehran), IranRevolutionaries demolished Reza Shah's mausoleum in 1980 and could not find his body, and a mummified body turned up on the site in 2018Reza Shah ruled Iran from 1925. He became the richest man in the country through forced sales and confiscations of estates, and on abdication he reportedly left his heir about £3 million and more than 3 million acres.Encyclopaedia Britannica and 3 moreRemains of the Plasco Building: نمایی از بقایای ساختمان پلاسکو، بهمن ۱۳۹۶1979 · Tehran, IranIran's revolutionary court had plastics maker Habib Elghanian shot in 1979, and the state took the tower he builtHabib Elghanian founded Plasco, Iran's largest plastics maker, in 1959. With his brothers he ran a group that made plastics, refrigerators, stoves and aluminium.jewishjournal.com and 4 moreMohammad Mosaddeq, Ahmadabad 1967: Mohammad Mosaddeq (1882-1967), Iranian Prime Minister and a major political figure in the modern history of Iran. This photograph was taken ca 191967 · Ahmadabad, IranMossadegh nationalised Iran's oil, was overthrown in a CIA and MI6 coup, and was buried under the floor of his own houseIn March 1951 Iran's parliament passed a law nationalising the oil industry, and Mohammad Mossadegh became prime minister in April. On 19 August 1953 a coup planned and financed by the CIA and MI6 overthrew him.equaltimes.org and 2 moreNader Shah: Contemporary portrait of Nader Shah. Artist unknown, created in ca. 1740 in Iran (cropped)1747 · Mashhad and Tehran, IranNader Shah's Indian jewels cost his blind grandson his life under torture, and a deposed shah took them into the Russian legationIn 1739 Nader Shah defeated the Mughal emperor and took Delhi. The Abbé de Claustre wrote that 5,000 chests were filled with gold rupees and 8,000 with silver, besides chests of diamonds and pearls.iranicaonline.org and 2 moreŞehzade Bayezid: Sultan Suleiman the Magnicifient (d. 1566) and he son Bayezid (d. 1561) a miniature.1562 · Qazvin, IranSüleyman paid the Shah of Persia to hand back his son Bayezid, who was strangled in Qazvin with his four sonsAfter Mustafa's death and their mother Hürrem's death on 15 April 1558, two sons were left: Selim and Bayezid. Bayezid feared the clause in Mehmed II's law code that let a new sultan kill his brothers.Encyclopaedia Britannica and 2 moreHasan-i Sabbah: Asabah21124 · Alamut Castle, Qazvin province, IranHasan-i Sabbah had both his sons executed and left Alamut to a lieutenant from another castleHasan-i Sabbah took the fortress of Alamut in 1090 by infiltration. He had entered it under another name, and he gave its castellan a draft for 3,000 dinars payable by the governor of Damghan.iis.ac.uk and 2 moreAbbas III: Abbas III1629 · Mazandaran, IranShah Abbas had one son killed and two blinded, and died with no son able to ruleAbbas I nearly died as a boy: his uncle Esmail II murdered or blinded at least nine relatives and ordered Abbas killed, and only Esmail's own assassination in 1577 saved him.iranicaonline.org and 2 moreDarius the Great: Darius I486 BCE · Susa (Shush) and Persepolis, IranDarius passed over his eldest son for Xerxes, grandson of Cyrus, on an argument supplied by an exiled Spartan kingHerodotus says Darius I had three sons by his first wife, a daughter of Gobryas, born before he became king; the eldest was Artobazanes.Wikisource (primary text) and 2 moreCambyses II: Stela Cambyses Apis closeup522 BCE · Sikayauvatiš, Nisaya, Media, Iran; inscription at Behistun, Cambyses killed his brother Bardiya in secret; a man ruled Persia under the dead brother's name until Darius killed him and took the throneCyrus the Great left two sons, Cambyses and Bardiya, whom the Greeks called Smerdis. Darius's Behistun inscription says Cambyses killed Bardiya and the people did not know it.perseus.tufts.edu and 7 moreTomb of Cyrus the Great: This is a photo of a monument in Iran identified by the ID530 BCE · Pasargadae, Fars province, IranAlexander found Cyrus the Great's tomb robbed and the body thrown out, and tortured its hereditary guards, who named no oneArrian, using the account of Alexander's officer Aristobulus, describes the tomb of Cyrus the Great at Pasargadae: a golden coffin holding the body, a couch with golden feet, Babylonian tapestries, purple rugs, robes, and collars, sabres and earrings of gold and jewels.Wikisource (primary text) and 2 moreMahmud I: 24th Sultan and 103rd Calip of Islam, Mahmud I (1696–1754).Legend · 1020 · Tus, Khorasan, IranTradition says Sultan Mahmud's gold for the Shahnameh reached Ferdowsi's town as his coffin left it, and his daughter refused itFerdowsi spent about 30 years writing the Shahnameh, the Persian national epic. The fullest account of his payment comes from Nizami Aruzi, who visited his tomb about a century later and recorded what was told at Tus.jls.um.ac.ir and 2 moreThe Murder of Iraj: This folio from Walters manuscript W.602 illustrates the murder of Iraj.Legend · 1010 · Iran (the kingdom of Iran in the epic)The Shahnameh says King Faridun gave Iran to his youngest son, and the two elder sons killed him and sent his head to their fatherFerdowsi's Shahnameh, finished in 1010, tells this as legend; the king Faridun goes back to the Avestan hero Thraetaona. In Warner's 1905 translation, Faridun, worn with age, divides the world among three sons.Internet Archive and 4 moreHaman Begging the Mercy of Esther: Haman Begging the Mercy of EstherScripture · 474 BCE · Susa (Shush), IranThe Book of Esther says the king hanged Haman on his own gallows and gave his house to Queen Esther the same dayThe Book of Esther says Haman, chief minister of King Ahasuerus, offered "ten thousand talents of silver" for a decree to destroy the Jews of the empire. Queen Esther, who had kept her Jewish birth secret, exposed him at a banquet.sefaria.org and 4 more