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Kourosh Zaim
Kourosh Zaim ( fa, کورش زعیم; born May 17, 1939) is an Iranian author, inventor, engineer, translator, and nonviolent political activist. He was born in Kashan, Iran, on May 17, 1939. A vocal advocate of secular democracy and human rights since youth, Kourosh rose to prominence as a political analyst and Secretary to the Leadership Committee of Iran's National Front party, or Jebhe Melli, Iran's largest pro-democracy political organization. Membership in Jebhe Melli has been illegal since 1981. Arrest Zaim was detained in February 2011, only hours after an interview with Radio Farda of RFE/RL was broadcast. As of 2017, Kourosh is incarcerated in Iran as a political prisoner. He was last arrested on July 16, 2016, for charges of "undermining the Islamic Republic" and "promoting anti-regime activity", and is currently serving a four-year prison term in Evin Prison, the sixth time he has been imprisoned for his views since Iran's Islamic Revolution. He was briefly released i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koroush Zaim
Cyrus II of Persia (; peo, wikt:𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁, 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁 ), commonly known as Cyrus the Great, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, the History of Iran, first Persian empire.#refachaemenids-EI, Schmitt Achaemenid dynasty (i. The clan and dynasty) Under his rule, the empire embraced all of the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, expanded vastly and eventually conquered most of Western Asia and much of Central Asia. Spanning from the Mediterranean Sea and Dardanelles, Hellespont in the west to the Indus River in the east, the empire created by Cyrus was the largest the world had yet seen. At its maximum extent under his successors, the Achaemenid Empire stretched from parts of the Balkans (Geography of Bulgaria, Eastern Bulgaria–Paeonia (kingdom), Paeonia and Thrace–Macedonia (ancient kingdom), Macedonia) and Southeast Europe proper in the west to the Indus River, Indus Valley in the east. The reign of Cyrus lasted about thirty years; his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
