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Mohammad Mosaddegh
Mohammad Mosaddegh was an Iranian politician, author and lawyer who served as the prime minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953, elected by the 16th Majlis. He was elected to the Iranian parliament in 1923 and served through a contentious 1952 election into the 17th Iranian Majlis, until his government was overthrown in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état aided by the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom (MI6) and the United States (CIA), led by Kermit Roosevelt Jr. As prime minister, he implemented policies that came to be known as Mosaddeghism.
Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Iranian architect and politician

Hussein-Ali Montazeri
cleric and Deputy Supreme Leader of Iran from 1985 to 1989
Mehdi Karroubi
Iranian reformist politician, democracy activist, mojtahed, and chairman of the National Trust Party
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz
Iraqi politician, academic and pan-Arab nationalist (1913–1973)
Zahra Rahnavard
Iranian academic and politician
Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari
Iranian Grand Ayatollah (1906-1986)
Dariush Eghbali
Iranian singer and former actor
Marina Nemat
author and former political prisoner
Massoud Rajavi
Iranian political activist (born 1948)
Maryam Farman Farmaian
Qajar princess
Ebrahim Yazdi
Iranian politician and activist (1931-2017)
Yousef Saanei
Iranian grand ayatollah (1937-2020)
Fariborz Raisdana
Iranian civil rights activist
Sadiq Hussaini Shirazi
Iraqi/Iranian Grand Ayatollah
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee
Iranian political prisoner
Noureddin Kianouri
Iranian politician
Mohammad al-Husayni al-Shirazi
Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja' and political activist (1928–2001)
Sayyid Sadeq Rohani
Iranian Grand Ayatollah (1926–2022)
Yadollah Sharifirad
Iranian fighter pilot, writer, military attaché
Mohammad-Ali Abtahi
Iranian cleric and politician
Bahareh Hedayat
Iranian activist
Fereydoon Batmanghelidj
Iranian writer (1931–2004)
Mitra Farahani
Iranian filmmaker and painter
Fatemeh Karroubi
Iranian politician
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Noor Ali Tabandeh
Iranian spiritual leader (1927-2019)
Nasser Zarafshan
Iranian writer
Lily Farhadpour
Iranian actress and journalist
Yasubedin Rastegar Jooybari
Iranian Grand Ayatollah
Hashem Sabbaghian
Iranian politician
Farideh Moradkhani
Iranian engineer and human rights activist
Mohammad Nourizad
Iranian filmmaker, activist and journalist
Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi
Iranian Muslim reformer
Ahmad Nakhjavan
military leader from Iran
Nematollah Salehi Najafabadi
Iranian cleric
Iraj Mesdaghi
Iranian author and activist
Mashallah Shamsolvaezin
Iranian journalist
Peyman Fattahi
founder and leader of the El Yasin Community
Hassan Tabataba'i-Qomi
Iranian Ayatollah
Bahá'í 7
seven Bahá'í community leaders arrested in 2008 and serving prison sentences in Iran
Artashes Ovanessian
Iranian-Armenian politician